05-14-2007, 04:32 AM
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?...ess=1&id=156116
<b>Bandra boy casts Naxal net over Mumbai</b>
Nandu R Kulkarni
MUMBAI, May 12. â The CPI-ML and the outlawed PWG have not only
expanded their grassroots following among the poor and Dalits of
Maharashtra but have <b>successfully sneaked into urban centres with a
strategy to foment unrest in near future.</b>
The shocking exposure came last week, following the arrests of four
Naxalites by the Nagpur police which included their propaganda and
communication head, <b>Mr Arun Fereira, an upper middle-class resident of
Bandra suburb. According to his family, Fereira was planning to become
a cleric.</b> On Thursday, he attempted to assault two policemen in a bid to escape after city police took him to custody on Tuesday.
That the PWG has set up a formidable base among rural Dalits was not
known until four of a Dalit family were killed at Bhotmange,
Khairlanji, in Gondia district of Vidarbha last year. There were also
reports by IB and Maharashtra Intelligence Commissioner that <b>Naxalites
are being funded from the state Capital as they build a support group
among urban intellectuals. Students bodies, labour groups and a few
NGOs have been functioning as their proxy</b>. The four have been booked
under Unlawful Activities Act and IPC. The chief minister, Mr Vilasrao
Deshmukh, has approached the Prime Minister for help to curb PWG's
threatening rise across nearly half of the state.
The Nagpur police undercommissioner Mr SPS Yadav arrested the core
group called CPI-ML Maharashtra Committee as it emerged from a secret
meeting at Chaitya-Bhoomi stupa. The others taken into custody are
Murli alias Ashok Satya Reddy, Dhanendra Shreeram Burle and Naresh
Bansod. Fereira, a graduate from St Xavier College, Mumbai, served as
a link between rural and urban groups.
Papers recovered revealed that the PWG, with the help of Fereira,
wanted to foment fresh trouble with the help of Dalits in Ramabai
Ambedkar Nagar in the eastern suburb of Ghatkopar, Mumbai, on 14 July,
the tenth anniversary of protests against the desecration of Dr
Ambedkar's statue. Special IG Mr Pankaj Gupta stationed at Nagpur
said: "I cannot deny the presence of Naxalites in Mumbai."
Intelligence agencies know their cohorts among artistes who even
clandestinely provide funds to the outfit but are reluctant to name
these celebrities.
<b>Bandra boy casts Naxal net over Mumbai</b>
Nandu R Kulkarni
MUMBAI, May 12. â The CPI-ML and the outlawed PWG have not only
expanded their grassroots following among the poor and Dalits of
Maharashtra but have <b>successfully sneaked into urban centres with a
strategy to foment unrest in near future.</b>
The shocking exposure came last week, following the arrests of four
Naxalites by the Nagpur police which included their propaganda and
communication head, <b>Mr Arun Fereira, an upper middle-class resident of
Bandra suburb. According to his family, Fereira was planning to become
a cleric.</b> On Thursday, he attempted to assault two policemen in a bid to escape after city police took him to custody on Tuesday.
That the PWG has set up a formidable base among rural Dalits was not
known until four of a Dalit family were killed at Bhotmange,
Khairlanji, in Gondia district of Vidarbha last year. There were also
reports by IB and Maharashtra Intelligence Commissioner that <b>Naxalites
are being funded from the state Capital as they build a support group
among urban intellectuals. Students bodies, labour groups and a few
NGOs have been functioning as their proxy</b>. The four have been booked
under Unlawful Activities Act and IPC. The chief minister, Mr Vilasrao
Deshmukh, has approached the Prime Minister for help to curb PWG's
threatening rise across nearly half of the state.
The Nagpur police undercommissioner Mr SPS Yadav arrested the core
group called CPI-ML Maharashtra Committee as it emerged from a secret
meeting at Chaitya-Bhoomi stupa. The others taken into custody are
Murli alias Ashok Satya Reddy, Dhanendra Shreeram Burle and Naresh
Bansod. Fereira, a graduate from St Xavier College, Mumbai, served as
a link between rural and urban groups.
Papers recovered revealed that the PWG, with the help of Fereira,
wanted to foment fresh trouble with the help of Dalits in Ramabai
Ambedkar Nagar in the eastern suburb of Ghatkopar, Mumbai, on 14 July,
the tenth anniversary of protests against the desecration of Dr
Ambedkar's statue. Special IG Mr Pankaj Gupta stationed at Nagpur
said: "I cannot deny the presence of Naxalites in Mumbai."
Intelligence agencies know their cohorts among artistes who even
clandestinely provide funds to the outfit but are reluctant to name
these celebrities.