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Monday, March 19, 2007



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NANDIGRAM VIOLENCE
CBI team finds arms stockpile; 10 persons held

DH News Service Nandigram:

The CBI team was surprised to stumble on nine rifles, more than 500 live cartridges, a map of Nandigram and binoculars, five cellphones and helmets besides red flags



The 25-member CBI team which has been probing the police firing at Nandigram following a directive of the Calcutta High Court, had a major breakthrough when it unearthed a huge cache of fire arms from a brick klin factory at Khejuri village in Nandigram and caught ten miscreants during a sudden raid on Saturday.

All the miscreants were produced on Sunday before the Judicial Magistrate Joyprakash Singh at Contai who ordered seven days police remand after the CBI officials booked them under the Arms Act. “We have asked for seven days remand for a thorough interrogation of the suspects,” a CBI official told deccan herald.

As per rule, CBI handed over the suspects to the Nandigram police and East Mindapore Superintendent of Police G A Srinivas. The CBI sleuths who were tipped off about the assembly of the suspects at brick klin by the members of the Farmland Eviction Resistance Committee(FERC), were surprised to stumble on nine rifles, more than 500 live cartridges, a map of Nandigram and binoculars,five cellphones and helmets besides red flags.


“It was from this brick factory that armed CPI(M) members always attacked us and they are not from our district,” one of the Committee members told the CBI additional superintendent A Majumder.

But Mr Srinivas declined to specify the political affiliation of those arrested and the local CPI(M) leadership refused to own them as the party activists.

High drama

There was high drama when the suspects were brought to the court as a mob of nearly 1,000 people tried to attack the police vehicle transporting them. Police had a trying time controlling the crowd and taking them into the court. The CBI team which made extensive surveys in the fields, also dug earth at Gokulnagar village near here following suspicion that some bodies or arms may have been buried there.

They spoke to the injured at the Tamluk Hospital and asked them the circumstances under which they were injured and what they were doing there.

The CBI team which split into two later in the day, followed a blood trail which, according to Mr Majumder, was highly unusual. But he declined to elaborate further. “We will continue our investigation for more days,” he added.

Officials from the Central Forensic Laboratory picked up more than one hundred empty cartridges which gave a lie to the police claim that around 50 rounds were fired on March 14.

Several cartridges found could never be fired from security personnel.