Crackdown on Maoist allies

Jalpaiguri, April 7: A worker of Samsing Tea Estate was picked up by the district police this morning in his capacity as the chief of a secret organisation formed by Nepal’s Maoist rebels in the Malbazar subdivision.

Ashok Subba, secretary of the Malbazar-Matialli block committee of the Nepal Communist Party (Maoist), was held after the police came to know about three units formed clandestinely by the rebels in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts.

Another worker of Dalmore tea estate was also detained for a few hours for alleged links with the Maoists. These units, two rebels arrested earlier had let out, were set up to provide shelter to the revolutionaries and also propagate the Maoist ideology.

Poll meeting

Calcutta: Chief electoral officer Basudeb Banerjee met senior Calcutta police officers, including commissioner Sujoy Chakraborty, to discuss arrangements at polling booths during the Lok Sabha polls. Deputy commissioner (headquarters) Herman Prit Singh said 25,000 Calcutta Police personnel would be deployed along with 10 companies of central forces on special poll duty.