Bhagalpur Central Jail

Patna, Aug. 9: Vijay Kumar Arya, a top Maoist leader lodged in Special Central Jail in Bhagalpur wants to learn Bengali and Tamil while his comrade Varanasi Subramaniam has a liking for Hindi and Bengali. The third top gun of the CPI(Maoist), Pulendu Shekher Mukherjee, has deep interest in Tamil, Hindi and English.

The three central committee members of CPI(Maoist) have furnished a list of books and dictionaries to the jail authorities. Arya, who is a postgraduate in economics from Magadh University wants to pen his experience (read ordeal) in prison.

Subramaniam, 58, alias Srikant alias Sukant alias Vimal is the son of an eminent lawyer and is an MCom and LLB from Andhra University. A native of Andhra’s Prakasam district, he has been a part of the CPI(Maoist)’s central committee since 2001 and helmed the outfit’s international cell ever since the arrest of Kobad Gandhi, also a central committee member, from Andhra Pradesh in 2009.

Arya alias Jaspalji alias Amar, 50, is an MA from Magadh University and hails from Karma village in Gaya. He is in charge of the outfit’s all-India subcommittee of mass organisation (Sucomo), according to the police records. Arya had also worked as a temporary lecturer before he joined the organisation.

Muherjee alias Saheb alias Jhantu alias Joyda, 69, belongs to Jadavpur police station area in Bengal. He is secretary of the outfit’s eastern regional bureau and has also been looking after the organisation’s activities in Delhi, Calcutta and Mumbai. He looks after the organisation’s military wing — People Liberation Guerrilla Army (PGLA).

Superintendent of Bhagalpur special central jail Jitendra Kumar said the three prisoners (Maoist leaders) have been provided a few books by the jail administration. Glimpses of the World History by Jawaharlal Nehru figures in the list of the important books that had been provided to the three jail inmates. The dictionaries in Hindi and English have also been given to the prisoners.