The Kandhamal police on Tuesday arrested seven persons for supporting Maoist activities, informed Kandhamal SP Pratik Singh in a Press meet.
The arrestees were identified as Agasti Ghatal and Baidhar Mallick of Madikula village and Prafula Nayak, Prasanth Ghatal, Kambupani Behera, Balaram Behera and Simanchal Behera of Tikiripada village under the Sadar police station.
The SP said the police have arrested the accused on the complaint of contractor Prasana Swain. Recently, an employee of the contractor was killed and truck, tractor, bike, JCB, tank, road roller worth about Rs 80 lakh were torched by the Maoists.