The R Udaygiri police on Saturday arrested Maoist Kumuta Gamanga of Bimanpur village against whom a case of torching of police station, Treasury and adoption of police officials is pending since 2006.
According to police, Kumuta was involved in the attack on the R Udaygiri police station on March 24, 2006. After torching the police station Kumuta along with other Maoists had too broke the jail set Treasury and the police station on fire. They had also abducted the then R Udaygiri police station officer Ranjan Kumar Mallick and Jail Superintendent Raghunath Sethy. Acting on a tip-off, a team of police officer Jaydev Biswajit raided the house of the Kumuta and nabbed him. However, Kumuta was forwarded to court following rejection of his bail plea.