Maoist Ultras Arrested in Patna
Patna: Sept. 19, 2007
The police in Patna on late Monday night, acting on intelligence reports, surrounded a house in Dujra under Buddha Colony police station and arrested two hard-core Naxal extremists and recovered a large number of items establishing their identities and their connections with the Maoist ultras.
Tusharkant Bhattacharya with more than half a dozen aliases was taken into custody from the house of one Shankar Thakur where he, along with his associate Uma Rai, lived for last couple of months as tenants.
Items required in building time bombs, communication equipment, several Naxalite literatures, booklets, and notes, a railway monthly ticket were some of the items that were recovered by the police during the raid.
During his interrogation, Bhattacharya, a native of Andhra Pradesh, admitted he was in the state capital to strengthen the Naxal organization and scout youths in Bihar.
Both Bhattacharya and Rai, a native of Bhojpur district in Bihar, were produced in the court and booked under a host of criminal codes before being sent to jail.
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