Police on Sunday arrested three persons on the charge of collecting extortion money from businessmen here by identifying themselves as Maoists. They were remanded to judicial custody after the local court rejected their bail petitions on Monday.
Rayagada SDPO Y Jagannath Rao told reporters that the three, Sanjit Bachili, Pabitra Bachili and Kishore Kandhagiri of Mahadev Kakili village under the Seshakhal police station, had been making threat calls in the name of Maoists and collecting money from businessmen.
“Acting on a complaint of Chitrasena Sahu, a dealer of Britannia Biscuits, the police tracked mobile members of the three accused and arrested them from Pitamahal village. The accused had demanded extortion money of Rs 1 lakh from Sahu,” informed Rao.