The Left parties on Sunday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to order a judicial probe by a sitting Supreme Court judge “to unravel the whole truth about the Purulia arms drop”.
CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat and his CPI counterpart A.B. Bardhan have written to Dr Singh saying that only such an inquiry can help bring out the “whole truth” about the 1995 incident.
“Recently, two of the persons involved in the affair, Niels Nielsen, alias Kim Davy, and Peter Bleach, have been talking to the media and providing information and making some allegations regarding the arms drop and how it was planned,” the letter said.
“It is necessary to have a comprehensive probe into the whole affair. For this we request you to constitute a judicial enquiry by a sitting Supreme Court judge,” it said. The Left leaders said the Purulia arms drop case “concerns a conspiracy to unleash violence against the then elected state government of West Bengal. It is also a case which had international ramifications along with the role of an organisation like the Ananda Marg, which was once banned by the government of India.”
The Left parties said that Kim Davy has provided some “startling information”.