Fifth Man Held for Train Sabotage


Kolkata, Jun 20 (IANS): A pro-Maoist activist who was one of the key accused in the derailment of a train in West Bengal that killed 148 people was arrested in Jharkhand Sunday, police said here.

Bapi Mahato, for whom the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had announced a reward of Rs.1 lakh for information leading to his capture, was taken into custody at Jamshedpur.

He is the fifth man to be arrested for the May 28 sabotage of rail tracks by suspected Maoists that derailed the Gyaneshwari Express in West Bengal. Several of the derailed train coaches were then hit by a goods train when they rolled on to a parallel track.

"Mahato was arrested by our police from Jamsedpur," West Bengal Director General of Police Bhupinder Singh told IANS.

 

  

Top Stories


Leave a Comment

Title: Fifth Man Held for Train Sabotage



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.