Chhatradhar Mahato mentioned he has moved the Calcutta Excessive Court docket over the developments(FILE)
Jhargram (West Bengal):
Trinamool Congress chief and former convenor of Maoist-backed PCAPA, Chhatradhar Mahato was Saturday grilled for the second consecutive day by Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) in two 11-year-old circumstances of practice hijack and homicide of a CPI(M) chief, sources mentioned.
He was grilled by NIA officers for 3 hours within the CRPF camp at Salboni in West Midnapore, the place he had arrived at 9 am.
Mr Mahato later mentioned he was questioned in reference to the October 2009 hijacking of New Delhi-bound Rajdhani Categorical from Bhubanesar for 5 hours at Jhargram station.
“I’m absolutely cooperating with the investigators however I believe they (BJP) have dug up an 11-year previous case and I’m being harassed for my affiliation with a political celebration (Trinamool Congress),” Mahato informed reporters after the interrogation on Saturday.
Mr Mahato mentioned he has moved the Calcutta Excessive Court docket and knowledgeable Trinamool Congress management concerning the developments.
His lawyer Kaushik Sinha mentioned, “We’ve got questions concerning the authorized justification to interrogate Mahato in reference to an 11-year-old case”.
Mr Mahato, who was inducted into the TMC state committee in July and given management position within the tribal Jangalmahal area, was questioned for hours by a staff of NIA officers on the Salboni camp on Friday too.
57-year previous Mahato was a outstanding chief of the Lalgarh motion that was spearheaded by Individuals’s Committee In opposition to Police Atrocities (PCAPA) and backed by Maoists within the late 2000s.
He is without doubt one of the accused within the killing of a CPI(M) chief in Junglemahal space.
Mr Mahato was arrested on September 26, 2009, from present-day Jhargram district for an alleged try on the lifetime of former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee in Kantapahari space of West Midnapore district on November 2, 2008.
He was let out in February this 12 months following a discount of his life time period to 10 years by Calcutta Excessive Court docket for his good conduct. He has been named in a number of circumstances associated to alleged Maoist actions with prices levelled beneath the stringent Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act or UAPA.
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