Kolkata: TMC leader and former leader of Maoist-backed People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities, Chhatradhar Mahato was arrested on Sunday (March 28) by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with a murder case.
Earlier on Thursday, the Calcutta excessive courtroom had directed Chhatradhar Mahato to look on the NIA workplace thrice every week in relation to his alleged involvement in a murder case.
The company had moved to the excessive courtroom with an enchantment which challenged a particular courtroom order which restrained the company from arresting Chhatradhar Mahato in connection with the murder of a neighborhood CPI(M) leader in 2009 at Lalgarh in the Jangalmahal area, which was then a hotbed of Maoist actions.
The company summoned Mahato on March 16, 18 and 22 to look earlier than the investigating officer however the TMC leader didn’t seem citing toothache, for which he additionally produced medical paperwork, however NIA officers weren’t happy with such reasoning.
Meanwhile, Mahato was noticed at Mamata’s rally at Jhargram and is claimed to be West Bengal Chief Minister’s shut aide in Jhargram district who tries to mobilise votes in favour of the TMC after the social gathering did badly in the Lok Sabha polls. Within hours of the polls ending in Jhargram district, a 40-member workforce of NIA officers arrested Chhatradhar Mahato from his Lalgarh home this morning. He can be produced earlier than the NIA Special courtroom at present.
The company had moved the company’s particular courtroom looking for orders for custodial interrogation of Mahato. The TMC leader failed to look earlier than the particular NIA courtroom on quite a few events citing completely different causes. The choice of the courtroom was adopted by the TMC leader’s incompetence to abide by the order.
NIA’s plea seeked custodial interrogation of Chhatradhar Mahato, on which a division bench had dominated that the accused would seem in entrance of the investigating officer at 11 am on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays on the workplace.
The NIA’s case towards Mahato is registered beneath varied sections of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Ex-Maoist Chhatradhar Mahato was launched from jail again in 2020 after having served a 10-year sentence.
