A lawyer was threatened to cough up Rs 50,000 in a poster stuck to the wall of her house in Maoist style at Singiri village under the Ali police limits on Saturday night.
Aul police station IIC Pramod lenka said one Runubala Das, a lawyer of Singiri village, complained in her FIR on Sunday that some miscreants allegedly pelted stone at her house, while she was inside.
When she came out, she unearthed a poster pasted in her wall with a message to give Rs 50,000 and if she failed to do it, she would be tried in the Praja Court and killed.
It was written in the poster that the direction had been issued by the CPI(Maoist) unit of Kanjimela Division.
“Acting on the FIR, police have seized the poster on Sunday and registered a case. Besides, an inquiry has been started,” informed Pattamundai SDPO Ram Chandra Gauda.