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Chhattisgarh Killings
Linked to Maoist Leader's Trial?

Raipur, Jan 17
The killing of seven Chhattisgarh security personnel in coordinated blasts late Tuesday uncannily coincided with the arrival of top arrested Maoist rebel Narayan Sanyal, who was brought to Bastar district for a trial.

The personnel of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and district police were killed by Maoists in Narayanpur area, 290 km from here, after they were lured into a forested area by a tribal who falsely alerted them about a dead body there.

Sanyal was also brought to trouble-hit Bastar Tuesday to be produced in a local court for his alleged involvement in the killing of many policemen during the past several years.

He was arrested in December 2005 and has been lodged in Raipur Central Jail since then.

"Sanyal, the mastermind of dozens of Maoist terror plots, was taken to Bastar to be produced before a local court," P.D. Verma, Deputy Inspector General at the jail, told IANS.

The 70-year-old Sanyal alias Naveen Prasad alias Bijoy Dada, who is now suffering from diabetes and acute kidney problems, is an accused in 21 cases including the October 2003 attack on former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu in and the jail break at Bihar's Jehanabad in November 2005.

"Sanyal is credited with opening a chain of landmine blast training centres for Maoists in India and making them experts in planting landmines," said a senior police official.

In 2006, a total of 749 people were killed in Maoist violence in India and around 80 percent were victims of landmine attacks.

Sanyal is the lone living contemporary of Charu Majumdar who founded the violent Maoist movement in 1967 in West Bengal. 

IANS News of Jan 17, 2007

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