Some setup terror network:CPM

KOLKATA, March 10: The state committee secretary of the CPI (Maoist), Somen, has built a network of potential killers in Kolkata. It is not the officers of the state or Central intelligence agencies, but the CPI-M leaders who suspect this. In an article which appeared in its mouthpiece ~ People's Democracy ~ on 2 March, the CPI-M said, it has “strong reasons” to “believe” that “he (Somen) has built a network of potential killers in Kolkata”. The article, Maoist Assassin Apprehended, has been written by Mr B Prasant. The hard-hitting write up ~ in which Somen has been described as “insensitively brutish”, “fanatically violent” and “psychopathically dedicated anti-Communist” ~ has come as a major embarrassment for the senior city police officers who neither countered the report nor confirmed it.
In what seems to be an apparent bid to avoid facing controversies, Mr Goutam Mohan Chakraborty, commissioner of the city police, said: “I will not comment on what appeared in the People's Democracy. I will not tell you anything about Maoist activities”. In the write up, the CPI-M said, Somen, who is now in the custody of the officers of Criminal Investigation Department (CID), has built the terror network in the city, comprising “gullible young men and women”. The CPI-M claimed, the police officers had suspected the presence of a Maoist terror module in the city for a long time.
When asked if the city police suspects the existence of such a network, Mr Jawed Shamim, deputy commissioner of the city police's detective department, said: “I don't look after the issues related to Naxal activities. It is the job of the special branch. I don't want to comment anything on what appeared in the mouthpiece of the CPI-M”. The Statesman contacted, Mrs Damayanti Sen, deputy commissioner of the city police's special branch, who interrogated Somen at the CID's headquarters at Bhawani Bhawan. She said she was not aware of the report.
The report stated that, Somen ~ “ A ruthless killer and a petty criminal with a perverse mind-set" ~ is responsible for killing nearly 27 CPI-M activists in Midnapore West, Purulia and Bankura.”
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