03-19-2007, 11:32 PM
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Saugar Sengupta | Kolkata
In what could be a major loss of face for the ruling CPI(M), the CBI on Sunday maintained that many of those missing after Wednesday's police firing in Nandigram could actually have been killed and buried somewhere as a diary retrieved from the arrested CPI(M) cadre might suggest.
<b>Ten alleged Marxist cadre were arrested by the Central agency on Saturday from a brick kiln with huge quantity of arms and ammunition that included 9 Japanese and 11 Indian rifles, about 700 live bullets. Also recovered from the site were Left leaflets and Red flags.</b>Â Â
Refusing to react on the recovery of firearms and ammunition reportedly from CPI(M) activists, a CPM leader said the matter was subjudice and under CBI investigation.
The accused were remanded to seven days' police custody by a Tamluk district court.
<b>CBI sources said the names of 32 people mentioned in the diary of the arrested persons matched the list of those missing surmising these people might have been bumped off the accused "at the instance of some local CPI(M) leaders" whose names have also been found in the diary. "More truth will be revealed after sustained interrogation", </b>CBI sources said.
<b>What is more, the arms found from the Janani brick kiln were supplied by anti-socials from places like Munger in Bihar, CBI sources said, adding "these were supplied by the outsiders who had come to Nandigram to deliver the consignments". At least one of the arrested persons had past criminal record. They had been directed by the local CPI(M) leadership to kill some opposition Bhoomi Ucchhed Pratirodh Committee members and torch their houses</b>, the CBI officials investigating the incident upon a Calcutta High Court order maintained.
Meanwhile, 7-8 injured persons who had gone missing after the police firing were rescued by the police on Sunday from a forest of Nandigram, police said.
<b>Elsewhere police recovered five sets of low-powered mines, one of which exploded in the wee hours of Sunday dug into the concrete fencing wall of Tata Motors at Singur. While no one was injured in the blast, district police claimed, surmising the Maoist groups active in Hooghly district could have placed the mines fixed with detonators.]</b>
In Tamluk, two women have filed a formal complaint with police alleging that some of its personnel raped them during the violence here last week, police said on Sunday.
The two women, who are under treatment at the Tamluk hospital presently, have recorded their statement before a police officer, they said. The victims, both housewives aged 27 years and 25 years, alleged that some police personnel cornered them during the melee after the firing at Sonachura village on March 14 and raped them. The formal complaint was filed after they narrated their ordeal before a NDA delegation led by Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha LK Advani on Saturday.
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Saugar Sengupta | Kolkata
In what could be a major loss of face for the ruling CPI(M), the CBI on Sunday maintained that many of those missing after Wednesday's police firing in Nandigram could actually have been killed and buried somewhere as a diary retrieved from the arrested CPI(M) cadre might suggest.
<b>Ten alleged Marxist cadre were arrested by the Central agency on Saturday from a brick kiln with huge quantity of arms and ammunition that included 9 Japanese and 11 Indian rifles, about 700 live bullets. Also recovered from the site were Left leaflets and Red flags.</b>Â Â
Refusing to react on the recovery of firearms and ammunition reportedly from CPI(M) activists, a CPM leader said the matter was subjudice and under CBI investigation.
The accused were remanded to seven days' police custody by a Tamluk district court.
<b>CBI sources said the names of 32 people mentioned in the diary of the arrested persons matched the list of those missing surmising these people might have been bumped off the accused "at the instance of some local CPI(M) leaders" whose names have also been found in the diary. "More truth will be revealed after sustained interrogation", </b>CBI sources said.
<b>What is more, the arms found from the Janani brick kiln were supplied by anti-socials from places like Munger in Bihar, CBI sources said, adding "these were supplied by the outsiders who had come to Nandigram to deliver the consignments". At least one of the arrested persons had past criminal record. They had been directed by the local CPI(M) leadership to kill some opposition Bhoomi Ucchhed Pratirodh Committee members and torch their houses</b>, the CBI officials investigating the incident upon a Calcutta High Court order maintained.
Meanwhile, 7-8 injured persons who had gone missing after the police firing were rescued by the police on Sunday from a forest of Nandigram, police said.
<b>Elsewhere police recovered five sets of low-powered mines, one of which exploded in the wee hours of Sunday dug into the concrete fencing wall of Tata Motors at Singur. While no one was injured in the blast, district police claimed, surmising the Maoist groups active in Hooghly district could have placed the mines fixed with detonators.]</b>
In Tamluk, two women have filed a formal complaint with police alleging that some of its personnel raped them during the violence here last week, police said on Sunday.
The two women, who are under treatment at the Tamluk hospital presently, have recorded their statement before a police officer, they said. The victims, both housewives aged 27 years and 25 years, alleged that some police personnel cornered them during the melee after the firing at Sonachura village on March 14 and raped them. The formal complaint was filed after they narrated their ordeal before a NDA delegation led by Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha LK Advani on Saturday.
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