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Monday, February 7, 2011

THE HINDU: AK-47 SEIZED ON LEADS GIVEN BY MAOISTS HELD IN TRINAMOOL CAMP

STAFF REPORTER

DATED 04-02-2011

KOLKATA: The police claimed to have recovered on Thursday a sophisticated firearm and several rounds of ammunition and explosives from Kanyabali village in West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district based on information provided by two suspected Maoists, who were arrested from a Trinamool Congress-run relief camp in Midnapore town on Monday.

According to Additional Director-General (Law and Order) Surajit Kar Purkayastha, one AK-47 rifle, 50 rounds of 8-mm cartridges and 61 gelatine sticks were recovered from an abandoned house.

The AK-47 rifle reportedly has ‘PLGA' (the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army) and ‘EER' (Eastern Frontier Rifles) written on it, making the police suspect that it could be one of the firearms looted by Maoists from the Silda armoury after they massacred 24 EFR jawans on February 15, 2010.

“The arms and ammunitions were found when the security forces raided various places at Kanyabali and Lakhanpur villages on the basis of information revealed during the interrogation of Asim Mahato and Amiyo Mahato. Investigations are still on to examine if the duo was involved in the Silda incident,” Mr. Kar Purakayastha said here.

Both were produced before Midnapore's Chief Judicial Magistrate and remanded to police custody for five days. The police were searching for four more suspected Maoists who had allegedly lived with Asim and Amiyo in the same camp since September last but fled recently.

COURTESY: THE HINDU

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