Maoist Shyamcharan Tudu, wanted for his alleged involvement in the 2010 Silda paramilitary outpost attack in West Bengal that left 24 personnel dead, was arrested by the police here on Sunday.
Based on a specific information, a police team from West Midnapore district of West Bengal arrested 26-year old Tudu, who was working at a factory in Peelamedu area, the police said.
Tudu was arrested from his house in the early hours on Sunday, they said, adding the West Bengal team was assisted in the operation by state’s Q-Branch police.
The arrested Maoist was part of the 60-member group that attacked the Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) outpost on February 15, they said.
A number of cases, including that of murder, are pending against Tudu, who joined the Naxal movement in 2008 and had been an active member of the group since then, police said.
The West Bengal police team is in the process of obtaining the transit warrant after which the Maoist will be taken to Silda.
Tudu was later produced before Judicial Magistrate Ramesh Babu, who directed the West Bengal police to produce him in a court before April 11.
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Katju calls Pak a fake country
Hyderabad, April 7: Pakistan is “a fake country”, and one day will reunite with India along with Bangladesh, Press Council of India chairperson Justice Markandey Katju (Retd) said here on Sunday.
He also said that whereas today an overwhelming majority of Hindus and Muslims were “communal”, it was not so a century ago.
“A fake country was created in the name of Pakistan. It is an artificially created entity by the British to make Hindus and Muslims keep fighting with each other, to stop India from becoming a powerful industrialised nation,” he said, answering questions after a symposium on ‘Reporting Terror: How Sensitive is the media?” here.
“Pakistan is a fake country and one day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh will reunite. It may take 15-20 years. Those who have divided us will not easily allow us to reunite. They will still want us to keep fighting. But we will reunite in the next 15-20 years under a strong secular modern-minded government,” he said.
“Eighty per cent of Hindus and eighty per cent amongst Muslims are communal. This is the bitter truth,” he said, adding that “in 1857, there was zero per cent communalism in the country. Though, there were differences between Hindus and Muslims.”
Discrimination against minorities exists in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, he added. — PTI