Sabyasachi panda biography books

Sabyasachi Panda is an Indian Naxalite-Maoist leader.^[1] He was wanted by the state police of several states in India for his involvement in criminal activities.

He came into international news in 2012, for his alleged engineering of the kidnapping of two Italians nationals. He is also alleged to have involved and wanted in more than 50 criminal cases, including the murder of Swami Laxamananda Saraswati and four of his aides in Kandhamal district in 2008 that had triggered communal violence in the region.^[2] He was expelled by the CPI(Maoist) and then he floated a new party called the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist-Maoist).^[2] He was also wanted in the abduction case of two Italian tourists, who were released later in March 2012.

On 18 July 2014 Odisha Police raided a Maoist hideout in Ganjam district on the basis of intelligence inputs and arrested Sabyasachi Panda from Berhampur.^[3] 45-year-old Sabyasachi Pa