Click to play videoNew Delhi: Amidst widespread outrage over the killing of 14 people in West Bengal's Nandigram, the CBI has unearthed some glaring truths about the perpetrators.
In what came as West Bengal police's big catch, it arrested 10 suspects and seized a stockpile of arms — pistols, revolvers, rifles and scores of bullets — on Saturday. The arrests came after a police raid at a brick kiln in Sonachuda.
The bullets seized along with the arrested only added credence to their involvement in the Nandigram firing. A CBI team had earlier found bullet marks in the area that were not made by police weapons.
The police, in the FIR filed against those arrested, stated that they were CPI-M supporters who had been brought to Nandigram by local Left leaders.
Phone numbers of local CPI-M leaders were also recovered from the mobile phones of the arrested. In fact, call records reveal that these were the last numbers dialed.
Also, the villagers claim that policemen who opened fire at them had covered their faces with handkerchiefs.
An Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) court has remanded the arrested to four days police custody.
"They were taken under arrest and produced before the learned ACJM court, Contai. The learned court, after hearing the case, passed an order remanding them to four days police custody," says APP, Contai Court, Safiul Khan.
But even as a 10-member CBI team, headed by Joint Director (East) B B Mishra, continues investigations, there are some questions that still remain unanswered.
Are those arrested the same policemen the villagers saw on the day of the violence? And if they were, since when have these men been in Nandigram?
(With Manogya Loiwal in Nandigram)
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