68-year-old man arrested for alleged Maoist links in Assam

Assam police has arrested Cachar district's resident Dharitri Sharma for alleged links with Maoist.

A senior police officer who does not want to be named told ET, “In a late night operation on Sunday Assam police's crime branch arrested 68-year-old Cachar district's Borkhola resident for his alleged link with Maoist leader Kanchan Da. He is a supporter of Maoist leader Arun Kumar Bhattacharjee alias Kanchan Da, taken to Guwahati for further investigation.”

In March this year, Assam police arrested two Maoist leaders. The CPI Maoist has been making attempts to spread the root of their organization in Assam in general and north east in particular.


Assam police had earlier stated there has been a lot of fund flows from the Eastern Regional Bureau to further the activities in Assam and Arun Kr Bhattacharjee has been assigned the task to take the command of Assam and North Eastern Region. “The arrested Arun Kr Bhattacharjee was an ex-MCC Special Committee Member till 2004 and after that Central Committee Member of CPI (Maoist) till date. He was found in possession of cash amount of Rs 3, 60000 being the proceeds of terrorism and other incriminating articles. The CPI (Maoist) is an organization prescribed as per the first schedule of UA (P) Act, 1967".

Police added they wanted to create a red corridor in Northeast states to wage war in a coordinated way with other organizations with similar ideology besides setting up a core committee in Assam to facilitate the command and control of the organization.