Haldia (WB), Mar 20 (PTI): The alleged mastermind of the Nandigram violence of 2007, Lakshman Seth, who was arrested from a Mumbai guest house last weekend, was remanded to three days in CID custody by Haldia court on Tuesday.

Two other CPI-M leaders, Amiya Sahoo and Ashok Guria, arrested along with Seth, were also remanded to CID custody for as many days by the sub-divisional judicial magistrate of Haldia, Sarbani Basu Mallick.

Some Trinamool Congress supporters and villagers from Nandigram demonstrated in the court premises, where the authorities had clamped Section 144 under CrPC anticipating violence, earlier in the day demanding capital punishment for Seth.

On February 27, a Haldia court had issued a non bailable arrest warrant against Seth after he failed to appear before it in connection with a chargesheet filed by the CID against 87 people including Seth, for alleged involvement in the death of six persons and disappearance of seven others during the turbulence.

The CID brought charges under the Arms Act, criminal conspiracy, forgery and cheating against the three.

Seth had been on the run ever since the CID filed the chargesheet on January 30, 2012.

Seth had allegedly led a group of partymen to 'recapture' the area, which had switched loyalty to the Trinamool Congress after the March 14, 2007 killing of 14 people there in police firing over an abortive bid by the government to acquire vast swathes of land for industry.

He was first said to have fled to Hyderabad and then from there to Maharashtra. After former CPI-M minister Sushanta Ghosh, he is the second big leader of the party to be held in a criminal case since the Trinamool Congress assumed power.