The Chhattisgarh police on Sunday claimed to have established link of Maoists with terrorist outfits in the country.
The alleged link came to the fore following the arrest of six Naxals involved in the July 8 attack on the house of senior Congress leader Avdesh Gautam at Nakulnar in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district, in which two people were killed.
“Preliminary inquiry by the police has revealed that hardcore Maoist Lingaram Kadopi was the mastermind of the attack. During the investigation, it was found that Kadopi, a hardcore Maoist, had been trained in terror camps in Gujarat and Delhi,” DGP, Dantewada, S.R.P. Kaluri disclosed to this newspaper.
According to him, Kadopi, a product of a media institute in New Delhi, has been given the charge of Chhattisgarh unit of the outlawed CPI(Maoist) recently after the death of top leader Azad, killed by the police in Andhra Pradesh. Earlier, Azad was in charge of the Maoist operations in Chhattisgarh. Kadopi had been serving as coordinator of Banabasi Chetana Ashram, an NGO working in Dantewada. The NGO’s promoter, Himansu Kumar has been accused of having links with the Maoists by the police.
“We have seized some documents from the arrested militants which revealed that Kadopi had visited some foreign countries, besides getting training in terror camps in Delhi and Gujarat. Kadopi is now absconding and his arrest will throw more light on links between the Maoists and terror outfits operating in the country,” Mr Kaluri said.