Another man killed in Purulia, Maoist hand suspected

KOLKATA: Suspected Maoists gunned down yet another person at Bandwan in West Bengal's Purulia district late on Thursday.

Inspector General of Police (Law and Order) Surajit Kar Purakayastha told The Hindu on Friday that Mansaram Singh was abducted and shot dead by unidentified assailants. Left-wing extremists were the primary suspects, the IG said.

The victim was reportedly a CPI(Marxist) leader earlier but of late he joined the Trinamool Congress.

Meanwhile, senior Maoist ideologue and Polit Bureau member Kobad Ghandy is expected to be produced before the Midnapore court on April 26 in connection with the case of triggering a landmine blast targeting the Chief Minister's convoy in November 2008.

Though he was to be produced in the court on April 12, a Delhi police team, which escorted Mr. Ghandy on the Rajdhani Express, aborted the journey at Allahabad following intelligence inputs of possible armed interception by Maoists to free him.