By IANS,
Kolkata : West Bengal’s Western Region Development Minister Sushanta Ghosh Tuesday indicated that police officer Atindranath Dutta, abducted and released by the Maoists last week, could have some connection with the left-wing ultras.
“There are some questions in the minds of the people. They feel he has some connection with the Maoists,” Ghosh told media persons here.
The minister, whose ministry is in-charge of implemnting development initiatives in the western districts of West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia, where the Maoists have a base, said it was not clear how the the officer-in-charge of the Sankrail police station was abducted by the Maoists.
“This will be known only after the investigation. But people do have questions in their mind about this,” he said.
Ghosh said people were raising queries about the way he was talking to the media after his release.
Dutta was abducted by the Maoists from his quarters in Sankrail Oct 20 and released two days later after the state government did not oppose the bail plea of 14 Maoist women cadres.