From Our Correspondent
Guwahati: A senior Maoist leader identified as Anukul Chandra Naskar alias Pareshji, who is also a politburo member of the CPI (Maoist), has been arrested by a joint team of Andhra Pradesh Police and Assam Police.
A senior official in Assam Home Department informed that the Maoist leader was picked up on Wednesday from Silchar town in South Assam. He hails from Balia under Sonapur police station in South 24 parganas district in West Bengal.
He had joined the MCC way back in 1967 and had risen to the rank of a politburo member in 2004 after the merger of the MCC and People’s War Group (PWG).
Guwahati City SSP AP Tiwari said Naskar alias Pareshji was arrested from a house on the outskirts of Silchar town by a joint team of the Andhra Police (SIB) and Guwahati City Police.
He was then shifted to Guwahati for interrogation. A team of IB officials is also interrogating him apart from the sleuths of Andhra Pradesh Police and the Assam Police.
Police is yet ascertain the reason behind the presence of the senior Maoist leader in Silchar in southern Assam.
Earlier on April 26, Assam Police had arrested two top Maoist leaders from Assam-Meghalaya boundary area on the outskirt of Guwahati city . One of them, Aklanta Rabha alias Maheshji is the lone central committee member of the CPI(ML)-Liberation from the entire Northeastern region.
The other was Siraj Rabha alias Bijoy Rabha, chief training instructor of the
Maoists for Jharkhand state. Both were travelling to Meghalaya to hold a meeting with local Khasi youth there. The police also recovered from their possession one .22 Spanish-made pistol and 240 rounds of ammunition, apart from four mobile handsets. Aklanta Rabha was wanted by the Assam Police since 2011 in connection with case no SOU/1/2011 of the Special Operations Unit of the state police.
Aklanta Rabha joined the Maoist rebel group in 1996 and is permanently based in the Northeast.
He visited Jharkhand on two occasions a year to attend the central council meetings.
Siraj Rabha was in Assam for the first time since 2007 when he had shifted to Jharkhand.
Aklanta Rabha, a BA final year drop-out had earlier in 1991 had formed a rebel group called Rabha Security Force, which was subsequently disbanded in 1996.
