Youth held for extorting money by posing as Maoist

Oct 15, 2012 |

Koraput (Odisha)

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A youth was arrested forallegedly posing himself as a Maoist and trying to extort money from a forest officer here, police said on Monday.

Posing as a Maoist cadre, Roshan Kumar Khora allegedly telephoned the Korput divisional forest officer on October 7 and demanded Rs 10,000, threatening him with dire consequences if he informed the police.

Following repeated calls, the DFO filed a complaint with the police, SP Awinash Kumar said, adding that the caller was caught by tracking of his mobile phone.

"During interrogation it was found that the youth has no link with the Maoists and just to make quick money, he presented himself as a Maoist because people seldom dare to complain against them to the police," the SP said.

Kohra is a resident of Upper Kutinga village under Laxmipur police station but for the past few days he was staying with a relative a few kilometres away from Koraput. There has been a rise in such incidents in the recent past with unscrupulous elements trying to take advantage of the terror unleashed by Maoists in the region.

In the past few weeks, police in Rayagada district had arrested at least 11 such persons for trying to extort traders and government officials.

Two such cadres were also arrested from Malkangiri district in August.

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