Guwahati, April 7: Amidst intensified operations by security agencies to thwart attempts by Maoists to set up a network in Assam, a team from the crime branch of Assam Police arrested one more person in the state for alleged links with Maoists.
According to reports, the person, identified as Hriday Kalita, was arrested from his village in the Chaygaon area in Kamrup district. He is being interrogated.
The arrest comes at a time when both the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Assam Police are conducting separate operations to foil attempts by Maoists to set up a base in the Northeast.
The NIA had on Sunday conducted searches at multiple locations across Assam and arrested an absconding lady Maoist cadre from Dibrugarh district besides detaining a couple in Karimganj for suspected Maoist links.
The search operations, conducted in as many as 17 locations in Cachar, Karimganj, Dibrugarh and Dhubri districts, by the investigation agency were in connection with a case pertaining to the arrest of Maoist leader Arun Kumar Bhattacharjee alias Kanchan Da, a member of Central Committee of CPI (Maoist) last month.
It may be mentioned that Kanchan Da, along with his associate Akash Orang alias Kajal, a member of Assam State Organising Committee of CPI (Maoist), were arrested from Patimara Tea Garden under Udarband police station of Cachar district in March, 2022.
CPI (Maoist) is an organisation proscribed as per the first schedule of the UA (P) Act, 1967.
The arrest of the CPI-M member was a big catch for the security forces fighting for national security as there are 200 cases registered against Kancha Da.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had on Wednesday pointed towards the resurgence of a “third wave” of Maoists’ threat in the state which had triggered operations against them by security agencies and police forces in the state.