By IANS,
Kolkata : Former Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Lok Sabha member Laxman Seth and two of his associates, arrested in Mumbai in connection with violent incidents at Nandigram in West Bengal’s East Midnapore district in 2007, were Sunday brought to Kolkata, a senior police official said.
Seth along with CPI-M leaders Ashok Guria and Amiya Sahoo were brought to Kolkata from Mumbai by a special CID team which had arrested the trio from Chembur area after a tip-off that the three were hiding there. They were nabbed from a guest house, Shyam Nivas.
“Seth along with Sahoo and Guria has been brought to Kolkata. They will be kept at Bhawani Bhawan (state police headquarters),” state Criminal Investigation Department Deputy Inspector General (Operations) K. Jayaraman told IANS.
After the arrests Saturday, the accused were produced before a court which allowed a transit remand and directed the police to produce them before a lower court in Haldia (of East Midnapore district) by March 22.
With this, 20 persons have been arrested in the case so far.
The case relates to the disappearance of seven villagers after a clash between the CPI-M and Trinamool Congress in November 2007.
Seth, a former MP of Tamluk – which includes Nandigram – and his two comrades are among the 88 persons named in the chargesheet filed Jan 30 in relation to the death of six villagers and disappearance of seven others who had gone missing after armed clashes in Nandigram in November 2007.