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Kolkata
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Security forces miss Kishanji again
Monday, 08 February 2010
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http://www.nerve.in/news:253500242714
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channel: India
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"He said that Prashanta Mahato, a front-ranking Maoist leader and the main accused in the abduction of Sankarail police station officer-in-charge Atindranath Dutta, has been arrested from his jungle hideout. "
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Kolkata, Feb 8 - The joint security forces Monday raided a camp used by banned Communist Party of India-Maoist - leader Kishanji in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, but the rebel leader yet again managed to escape.<br><br>Acting on a tip-off, the forces raided two Maoist camps in the Pirakata jungles, and found Kishanji's hideout in one of them, District Superintendent of Police Manoj Verma, who led the raiding party, said. <br><br>'Kishanji had set up base there. But he fled before we could reach him. Or maybe he had fled a couple of days earlier,' Verma told IANS. <br><br>Kishanji has so far eluded the police five times in the last few months. <br><br>'We found that bullets were being made there. There were a lot of landmine-making materials like gunpowder,' Verma said. <br><br>He said that Prashanta Mahato, a front-ranking Maoist leader and the main accused in the abduction of Sankarail police station officer-in-charge Atindranath Dutta, has been arrested from his jungle hideout. <br><br>In a daring daylight raid, about 40 Leftwing extremists stormed the Sankrail police station last October, killing two policemen and abducting the officer-in-charge Dutta. He was freed after two days in captivity.<br><br>
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