‘Maoist’ Poster Claims Abduction Of AIIMS Student Suhail Ajjaj

Bhubaneswar: Commissionerate Police has begun probe into the missing Kashmiri student of AIIMS-Bhubaneswar Suhail Ajjaj after a poster, claimed to be by a Maoist organisation, found in the Baramunda bus stand area on Monday has claimed his abduction.

Sources said some locals found a Maoist poster on the wall of Baramunda overbridge in the morning and informed the police who rushed to the spot and seized the poster.

The message written on a plain paper has demanded release of Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda within a week failing which the Red Rebels will kill Suhail.

Besides, the poster has also threatened to blast police stations and the railway station in Bhubaneswar on March 11 and kill hundreds of people.

Asked about the incident, Bhubaneswar DCP Satyabrata Bhoi said the Khandagiri Police has seized the poster. “We are examining the authenticity of the poster and have started investigation,’ he added.

Claiming that the poster is fake and is an act of some mischievous elements, Subhashree Panda, wife of Sabyasachi Panda said that her husband is no longer a member of the CPI-Maoist outfit.

“My husband has left the Odisha Maoist State Committee 10 years ago. What I feel that some anti-social elements are trying to divert the attention of the police,” she pointed out.

Reacting to the incident, Suhail’s father Ajjaz Ahmed Kataria  and his youngest son said the police should take this matter seriously and make a proper investigation.

An MBBS second-year student, Suhail left the hostel on February 9 telling his friends that he was leaving for a marriage in Chandigarh and would return in a week. He said he will be travelling through Kolkata. But as he did not return even after nine days, his classmates informed the college authorities.