A single judge bench of Justice C R Dash granted bail to Andaluri Eswari, Roja Mandingi and Gokul Kuldipia and Kendula Sirisha alias Padma, wife of top Andhra Maoist leader Ramakrishna, with certain stringent conditions even as Orissa government counsel did not oppose their bail pleas.
The four were arrested by Orissa Police in Semiliguda in Koraput district on November 13 last year when they were trying to sneak in from Andhra Pradesh in a car.
The police who recovered Maoist literatures from their possession booked them under charges of sedition and waging war against the government.
While the HC directed that the bails would be executed in SDJM court of Jeypore in Koraput district with a bail bond of Rs 20,000 with two sureties each, Justice Dash imposed separate conditions for Eswari and Padma, residents of Andhra Pradesh.
Eswari, a native of Vishakhapatnam and Padma, a native of Prakasham district of the neighbouring state, would be handed over to Andhra Pradesh police within two days.
The HC also directed that the two could not enter into Orissa except when they are summoned by the Orissa court. For Orissa residents Roja and Gokul, the HC directed that both shall report to the local police in every 15 days and they shall not move out the police station area without prior permission of the investigating police officer.
The high court had granted bail to Maoist intellectual Ganti Prasad Rao alias Prasadam on the eve of release of abducted Malkangiri collector Krishna on February 25.