The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has conducted searches in Assam in connection with Maoist case of Cachar district of the State.
The NIA conducted the search operations at two locations in Kamrup district of Assam on Friday.
The case relates to the arrest of Maoist leader Arun Kumar Bhattacharjee alias Kanchan Da, a member of Central Committee of banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) along with his associate Akash Orang alias Kajal, a member of the outfit’s Assam State Organizing Committee by Assam Police.
The duo was arrested from Patimara Tea Garden under Udarband police station of Cachar district on March 6, 2022.“These accused persons along with their other associates were involved in spreading the network of CPI(Maoist) in Assam and North-East region,” the NIA said in a statement.
The case was initially registered vide FIR No. 02/2022 at Crime Branch Police Station, Panbazar, Guwahati, district Kamrup and subsequently re-registered by NIA on March 16.
During the searches, the NIA claimed to have recovered incriminating documents. Further investigation in the case is continuing, it added. On April 3, the agency had conducted searches at 17 locations in Assam and arrested a member of the outlawed CPI (Maoist) for allegedly spreading its network in the northeast region of the country.
The searches were carried out in places in Cachar, Karimganj, Dibrugarh and Dhubri districts.
During searches conducted then, digital devices and incriminating documents of the CPI (Maoist) were seized.
The outfit and its associates arrested in the case were allegedly involved in spreading the network of the CPI (Maoist) in Assam and other parts of the northeast region of the country in the face of continued reverses in the traditional hotbeds of Maoist movement in the affected States.As part of the initial organizational buildup, the outfit is known to seek traction among the peasantry class and the workers union by organizing protests and demonstrations.