UG suspects : NIA files charge sheet
Source: The Sangai Express / Press Trust of India

New Delhi, May 21 2012: In the first documentary evidence submitted before a Court about nexus between northeast insurgents and Maoists, the NIA today filed a charge sheet against three suspected Manipuri rebels for providing training and supplying arms and ammunition to Naxal groups.

The case was filed before the designated court of NIA in Guwahati against N Dilip Singh, Senjam Dhiren Singh alias Raghu and Arnold Singh under various sections of Unlawful (Activities) Prevention Act, an official spokesperson said.

Dilip, self-styled chief of the 'foreign external affairs department' of banned organisation People's Liberation Army, was arrested by Delhi Police, Dhiren was nabbed by Kolkata Police and Arnold was picked up by NIA last month, he said.

The three were charged with imparting training to the cadres of banned CPI (Maoist) and supplying arms and ammunition to them.

The National Investigation Agency had on July 11, 2011 registered a case on the basis of reliable information that PLA, a banned group of Manipur, has formed alliance with the Communist Party of India (Maoist) for procuring arms, ammunition and communication devices for the latter for carrying out terrorist activities.

The investigation indicated that in and around June 2006, the PLA leadership met the top leaders of CPI (Maoist), which followed several other meetings between the two groups in 2006-2008 .

These meetings resulted in establishment of an office of PLA in Kolkata towards the end of 2006 which started coordinating activities of these outfits in procurement of arms and ammunition and communication devices.

In 2008, some of the top echelons of CPI (Maoist) met PLA members in Myanmar and signed an agreement for unified actions of waging war against India, the NIA said.

Self-styled PLA chief Irengbum Chaoren had presided over this meeting where CPI (Maoist) had requested the PLA for providing them sophisticated weapons and PLA in turn had sought help for procurement of Ammonium Nitrate (explosive) from the CPI (Maoist).

As a part of the ongoing conspiracy CPI (Maoist) has been sending money from time to time for supply of arms, ammunition and communication devices to PLA.

Some of these transactions have been brought on record in the investigation carried out by NIA which claim that the PLA office in Kolkata played a crucial role in receiving money, co-ordinating meetings between the two organisations and supplying arms, ammunition and communication devices to the CPI (Maoist).

In order to establish the training camps for the CPI (Maoist) cadres in Jharkhand and Odisha, a team of PLA cadres comprising four senior functionaries had visited the Dandakaranya forest in Chhattisgarh sometime in the mid of 2009 .

Investigation has established that two training programmes, comprising Signal Training and Military Training were carried out for the CPI (Maoist) cadres by the PLA in Saranda Forest of Jharkhand.

In order to avoid detection of the police, the cadres of both the organisations had physically met, delivered consignments including arms, ammunition and communication devices involving different states such as Delhi, West Bengal, Assam, Mizoram, Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and so on, the spokesman said.

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