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STAFF WRITER 0:21 HRS IST

Bhubaneswar, Nov 5 (PTI) Maoists might have killed VHP leader Laxamananda Saraswati for securing support of the minority Christians and expand their network in Orissa's Kandhamal district, the Commission probing the murder was informed here today.

"Maoists might have killed Saraswati to get the support of Christians," former Inspector in-Charge of Kotgarh police station H K Pradhan told Justice S C Mohapatra, probing the killing of Saraswati and the violence therafter.

Noting that the minority community in Kandhamal was not accepting Saraswati's campaign against cow slaughter and religious conversion, the field level officer said many houses were set ablaze and some churches attacked in Kotgarh area a day after the killing of Saraswati on August 23, 2008.

Though no case relating to conversion was registered at the police station, Pradhan said seven people were arrested for rioting and arson.

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