The Crime Branch police currently interrogating arrested top Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda here on Wednesday claimed that they have obtained substantive evidences about Panda’s involvement in the Maoist attacks on a police station and a police outpost in Ganjam district in February 2008.
Sources in the Crime Branch headquarters here also said that they are expecting to get some more clinching evidences against Panda to nail him in the Maoist attacks on the Tarasingh police station and the Gallery outpost in Ganjam district on February 18, 2008.
Over a hundred Maoists led by Panda had attacked the Nayagarh police armoury, police training school and the local police station on the night of February 17. While escaping towards the Gasma forests with the cache of weapons looted from Nayagarh, the rebels had also attacked the police station and the outpost.
After taking Panda on remand for three days, the Crime Branch sleuths are now grilling him here for last two days. His remand, second time during last two months, would end on Thursday and the Crime Branch is likely to take him under further remand as it is investigating into at least 12 cases involving Panda.