The anti-Maoist operation was resumed again on Monday morning and continue till sunset, police sources said. The police were chasing the extremists in groups during the daytime.
A number of top officials of the State police were coordinating the anti-Maoist operation that was being conducted with the help of CRPF and Greyhound jawans from Andhra Pradesh.
Police, however, had not been able to recover any of the 1100 arms that the Maoists had taken away from two arms depots and three police stations in Nayagarh, sources added.
Critics, however, say that the government was overplaying its success in the anti-Maoist act in an attempt to prove its efficiency and hide its `failures'.
What had created doubt over the government's claim about the killing the armed Maoists is that the policemen carrying out the combing operation had not retrieved the body of a single Maoist till Sunday evening.
The government's claim about the killing of Maoists was based on information which the police had collected from the villagers living in the fringe areas of the forests in Ganjam and Kandhamal districts.
Meanwhile, the Opposition parties have started mounting their attack on the Naveen Patnaik Government for its `failure' to deal with the situation.
The Opposition is demanding resignation of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik blaming his government for intelligence failure and poor security arrangements at the arms depots.
In another development, the association of the State policemen has demanded that the police stations and armouries in naxal-affected areas be fortified without delay.
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