New Delhi: A pro-Maoist group’s leader, who is suspected of involvement in the derailment of the Gyaneswari Express train in West Bengal, was on Tuesday arrested by the police.
People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) leader Sameer Mahato is in the custody of the West Bengal police and will be e produced before a Jhargram court later in the day in connection with the May 28 Jnaneswari Express disaster.
Mahato was allegedly a member of a Maoist team that sabotaged railways track, causing the train to derail. He was arrested up by the Criminal Investigation Department in West Midnapore.
The derailment of the Howrah-Kurla train in Midanpore on May 28 in which 148 passengers were killed has been blamed on Maoists.
The Centre announced a CBI inquiry on June 2, the day when Trinamool Congress won a landslide victory in the municipal elections in West Bengal.
The decision was taken as the incident had taken place on railway property and in such cases the concurrence of the state government was not required, it was said.
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