GUWAHATI: Three leaders of the Manipur based militant outfit People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has come under the legal net of National Investigation Agency (NIA) for imparting training to the banned CPI (Maoist).
On Monday, the NIA has filed charge-sheet against the three PLA activists. Supplying the Maoists with arms and ammunition is also another reason for the legal move of NIA which was filed in the agency’s special court in Guwahati.
The three PLA leaders against whom charge-sheet was filed are N Dilip Singh alias Wangba, Senjam Dhiren Singh and Raghu and K Arnold Singh. Wangba is the PLA’s chief of external affairs department.
It can be noted here that On July 11, 2011 the investigating agency had registered a case against the Manipur based outfit. Investigations, an NIA officer claimed, established the outfit’s rapport with Maoists since June 2006. The NIA officer added, “The meetings between the PLA activists and Maoists resulted in the establishment of an office of PLA in Kolkata towards the end of 2006. This office coordinated the procurement of arms and ammunition and supplying them to the Maoists”.
According to the NIA charge-sheet, in 2008, top Maoist leaders met a PLA delegation led by its chief Irengbum Chaoren in a foreign country and inked a joint declaration for unified actions of waging war against India. The PLA subsequently struck a deal for supplying sophisticated weapons to the Maoists party in lieu of explosives, mainly ammonium nitrate, from the Red rebels.
According to the NIA officer, the Maoists have been sending money to PLA for arms, ammunition and communication devices occasionally. “The PLA’s Kolkata office played a crucial role in receiving money,” the NIA officer said, adding that the jigsaw pieces fell in place after the arrest of PLA cadre Arnold Singh alias Beacon – he was the PLA-Maoist linkman in Kolkata – from Siliguri last month. (NNN)
