Jhargram/Burdwan (WB): More than three years after the Netai massacre in which CPI(M) men allegedly fired upon villagers killing nine persons West Midnapore district, the police arrested the main accused Anuj Pandey from Jharkhand, the CID said today. Pandey, CPI(M)’s former Binpur zonal committee secretary, was arrested from Chandrapura in Bokaro district on Tuesday, CID Special Superintendent Bharati Ghosh said.
CID had produced Pandey before a Bokaro court and obtained a transit remand for him.
He was produced on Wednesday before the court of Burdwan Chief judicial magistrate Selim Ahmad Ansari who remanded Pandey to one day’s transit remand for production in Jhargram SDJM’s court on Thursday.
Ghosh told reporters that Pandey had been hiding in various Maoist dominated places of Jharkhand since the massacre took place in Netai village on January 7, 2011. (PTI)