Tuesday, 04 June 2013 | PNS | New Delhi
Preliminary probe by the NIA points to the involvement of Congress insiders and a Sukma-based supplier of Naxals as part of a larger conspiracy to attack the Parivartan rally at Darbha on May 25, which wiped out the leadership of the Congress in Chhattisgarh.
A sitting Congress MLA and his son are suspected to be the key link between the conspirators and the brutal Maoists. The duo is under the scanner of investigating agencies, and the NIA is likely to question them in due course.
Incidentally, the ruling BJP in the State has already demanded narco analysis test on Kawasi Lakhma, who is a sitting MLA from the Maoist-dominated Konta Assembly seat in Sukma district. Lakhma was allowed to escape by the Maoists, who killed Salawa Judum architect Mahendra Karma and Congress State chief NK Patel during the attack on Congress leaders' convoy on May 25 at Darbha valley in Sukma district.
Analysis of the call detail records (CDRs) of the mobile phones of those accompanying the convoy on the fateful Saturday pointed out that some people from the convoy were continuously updating the Maoists on the movement of the cavalcade and the route taken by it, investigators said.
The probe so far, according to sources, suggests that Naxals had used about 30 kg of ammonium nitrate, a commonly used explosive by the ultras, to attack the convoy on May 25. The explosives were used to create a crater on the road in order to block and slow down the convoy carrying Congress leaders after which the Naxals started firing at the convoy killing several Congress leaders and security personnel.
The NIA also suspects the press release issued by the Maoists could be a fake one as the language used is not in the typical style of the ultras. The four-page release in Hindi has been signed in English under the name of Gudsa Usendi, a fake identity created by the Maoists to communicate with the Press.
Inputs do not point out the presence of any Naxal commander in the name of Usendi. In a style untypical of the Maoists, the release has leveled personal allegations against Mahendra Karma and his family.
The preliminary findings of the NIA could come as a major source of embarrassment for the Congress in the run up to the Assembly polls in the State, so both the State and central leaders are trying to highlight the aspect of security lapse. The Union Home Ministry sources on Monday said the NIA probe is at a preliminary stage and denied conspiracy theories behind the audacious Maoist attack.
Preliminary probe by the NIA points to the involvement of Congress insiders and a Sukma-based supplier of Naxals as part of a larger conspiracy to attack the Parivartan rally at Darbha on May 25, which wiped out the leadership of the Congress in Chhattisgarh.
A sitting Congress MLA and his son are suspected to be the key link between the conspirators and the brutal Maoists. The duo is under the scanner of investigating agencies, and the NIA is likely to question them in due course.
Incidentally, the ruling BJP in the State has already demanded narco analysis test on Kawasi Lakhma, who is a sitting MLA from the Maoist-dominated Konta Assembly seat in Sukma district. Lakhma was allowed to escape by the Maoists, who killed Salawa Judum architect Mahendra Karma and Congress State chief NK Patel during the attack on Congress leaders' convoy on May 25 at Darbha valley in Sukma district.
Analysis of the call detail records (CDRs) of the mobile phones of those accompanying the convoy on the fateful Saturday pointed out that some people from the convoy were continuously updating the Maoists on the movement of the cavalcade and the route taken by it, investigators said.
The probe so far, according to sources, suggests that Naxals had used about 30 kg of ammonium nitrate, a commonly used explosive by the ultras, to attack the convoy on May 25. The explosives were used to create a crater on the road in order to block and slow down the convoy carrying Congress leaders after which the Naxals started firing at the convoy killing several Congress leaders and security personnel.
The NIA also suspects the press release issued by the Maoists could be a fake one as the language used is not in the typical style of the ultras. The four-page release in Hindi has been signed in English under the name of Gudsa Usendi, a fake identity created by the Maoists to communicate with the Press.
Inputs do not point out the presence of any Naxal commander in the name of Usendi. In a style untypical of the Maoists, the release has leveled personal allegations against Mahendra Karma and his family.
The preliminary findings of the NIA could come as a major source of embarrassment for the Congress in the run up to the Assembly polls in the State, so both the State and central leaders are trying to highlight the aspect of security lapse. The Union Home Ministry sources on Monday said the NIA probe is at a preliminary stage and denied conspiracy theories behind the audacious Maoist attack.
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