State Police allowed to quiz Maoist leader
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Police has got a nod from a Delhi court to interrogate top Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy in connection with cases of several Naxal violence incidents including those relating to killing of police personnel.
A team of officers of Crime Branch, CID and civil police are going to quiz Ghandy at Tihar jail regarding cases registered in Nayagarh and Cuttack districts, sources said.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja had on Wednesday allowed an application of the Odisha Police seeking a direction to the Tihar Jail SP to allow them to interrogate the accused.
They specified four cases including one relating to the killing of over 10 policemen allegedly by Naxals in February, 2008 in which Ghandy was also wanted.
Meanwhile, a local court in Delhi on Friday has filed an over 700-page charge-sheet in the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja, the police alleged that 63-year-old Ghandy along with his associates was trying to build a Maoist corridor in the national capital.
The investigators, who claimed to have recovered a fake voter identity and pan cards from Ghandy, also referred to a CD in which he was shown to be addressing armed cadres of the banned organization.
He was arrested here on September 20 last year.