JEYPORE/KORAPUT: The District and Sessions Court of Jeypore on Tuesday allowed the State Government to withdraw cases against four Maoists, including top Maoist Ramakrishna’s wife Kandula Sirisa alias Padma.The four released are Padma, Ishwari Andaluri of Visakhapatnam, Puni alias Rosa Mandingi of Bandhugaon and Gokul Kuldipia, a driver, were set free on Tuesday.“On the direction of the Home Department we filed applications for withdrawal of cases against the Maoist quartet on June 8 and the court has approved it,” said public prosecutor Arun Kumar Padhi. Though the four had no direct involvement with any crime in the State, they were charged under different sections of IPC. The police had recovered some Maoist materials from their possession. District Judge Ajit Patnaik accepted the petition and ordered release of the accused persons.Release of five Maoists, including Ganti Prasadam, was one of the conditions of the deal between Maoist selected mediators and the Orissa Government for release of abducted former Malkangiri collector R Vineel Krishna and junior engineer Pabitra Mohan Majhi. Currently, Ganti Prasadam is lodged in Ongol jail in Andhra Pradesh.They were nabbed by police near a village under Semiliguda police limits in Koraput district in November last year when Sirisa was on her way to Narayanpatna forest to meet her husband Rama Krishna and son Prithivi alias Muna.Meanwhile, Jana Adhikar Manch convener and one of the mediators Dandapani Mohanty has demanded expediting the release of another 503 tribals lodged in jails across the State. They were branded as the Maoists.
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