In a major breakthrough, the Rourkela police nabbed a most-wanted woman Maoist leader from the lathikata area on the city outskirts here on Thursday.
The arrested identified as Sobha alias Sheela Munda alias Budhani Munda is wife of Maoist organisation mastermind Prashant Bose. Police said Sobha, who had a non-bailable warrant against her, was a member of the CPI-Maoist Central Committee. She was managing the women wing of the Maoist outfit.
Earlier, she had been arrested by the Rourkela police from Amjharan jungle of lathikata on October 8, 2006 along with Bijay Tudu and Rahul Munda.
On High Court bails, they were released from the Rourkela jail on June 25, 2007 and once again nabbed and lodged in the Jharkhand jail.
On Wednesday, she was released from the Jharkhand jail. While she was on the way to lathikata, the city police, acting on a tipoff, rushed to the area and arrested her.