Two hardcore Maoists K Anita and Bikram Mallick were arrested on Wednesday evening near Talapatma village forests underBadagada police limits.
Ganjam SP Asish Singh informed on Thursday that the duo was apprehended with huge cache of explosives and other articles, besides seizure of Rs 4 lakh cash.
However, 3-4 Maoist sympathizers from Nayagada side, who had come to meet the arrest duo, were able to escape by taking advantage of the bushy forests, he added.
The two arrested Maoists confessed that they had been sent by reclusive Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda from Badagada and Mohana forest areas to receive articles from their sympathizers in Nayagada district, which were sent by Milli Panda,
SP Asish Singh said.
Police also recovered a motor cycle, 7.62 live ammunitions, 303 live ammunitions, 10 non electrical and two electrical detonators, two explosive sticks, fuse wires, flexible wires, Maoist literature, medicine and daily usable articles from the arrested duo, the SP revealed.
Asked on the relation of the case to Milli Panda, the SP said that police have acquired certain records against Milli Panda.
However, after getting the details, a case will be registered against her and proper action will be taken against her.
According to the police,
K Anita hailing from Mandarabaju village of Gajapati district had joined the Maoists group in 2007 and became a hard core Maoist by 2009.
She is presently acting as the head of the women wing of Maoist outfit and has been involved in nine different cases in Ganjam and more than a dozen of cases in Gajapati and Kandhamala.
Similarly, Bikram Mallick hailing from Katingia village of Kandhamala district had been working for the Maoist organization since 2002.
He was presently working as the head of the over ground workers in Ganjam, Gajapati and Kandhamal districts.
Bikram Mallick was the main associate of the Maoist leader Sabyasachi providing all types of logistics and facilitating courier work to the Maoists.