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This is an archive article published on March 6, 2010
Maoists abduct school headmaster in West Bengal
The Maoists struck again by kidnapping a school headmaster in West Bengals Bankura District and threatened to kill him if the State Government failed to release six villagers arrested after police officer Rabi Lochan Mitras murder.
Written by ANI
March 6, 2010 09:47 AM IST
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The Maoists struck again by kidnapping a school headmaster in West Bengals Bankura District on Friday late evening and threatened to kill him if the State Government failed to release six villagers arrested after police officer Rabi Lochan Mitras murder.
On Friday evening,the armed Maoists barged into Shibram Satpathy School in Sarulia village of the District and went around searching for its headmaster Ranjit Duley.
Duley came out and confronted them.
The Maoists pointed their guns at Duley and asked him to come along.
It was reported that the Maoists tried him at a Kangaroo Court deep inside the Amlachuti Forest area.
Bankura Superintendent of Police Vishal Garg said that the investigation is on.
We have started investigation. Not much information has been received so far, Garg said.
The incident occurred just days after Maoist leader Koteshwar Raos right hand man Telugu Deepak was arrested by the West Bengal Police.
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Koteshwar Rao also served a 48-hour ultimatum for Duleys release.
It was reported that the Peoples Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) leader Sidhu Soren,also made the same demand.
Soren also claimed that kidnapping was done by an outfit called Sidhu Kanu Grnamilitia,which appears to be a Maoist front organization.
Police suspect that Duleys abduction has a revenge motive for the encounter of the suspected Maoist Jagannath Duley.
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