CID starts fresh probe into Silda attack case
May 23rd, 2011 - 6:59 pm ICT by IANSKolkata, May 23 (IANS) The criminal investigation department (CID) of West Bengal police Monday visited Enayetpur in West Midnapore as part of a fresh probe into the attack last year on the Silda camp of the Eastern Frontier Rifles, a senior police officer said.
“A team of CID led by Special Superintendent Ashoke Prasad visited the Enayetpur area in the district where an INSAS (Indian small arms assault) rifle looted from the Silda EFR camp was found among a huge cache of firearms recovered from near a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) office,” Additional Director General of Police (CID) Raj Kanojia said.
He told IANS over phone that an investigation has been launched into the entire incident.
State Director General of Police Naparajit Mukerjee Sunday ordered a fresh probe into the Silda attack after the arsenal number of the rifle recovered near the CPI-M party office matched with that of one of the rifles looted from EFR’s Silda camp.
“So far our suspicion was on Maoists. Now it seems CPI-M workers may have been involved,” Mukherjee Sunday told reporters at the state secretariat, Writers’ Buildings.
Besides the INSAS rifle, an AK 56 rifle, nine other rifles, 22 pipe guns and 36 rounds of ammunition were recovered from a field, some 1.5 km from CPI-M’s Enayetpur party office.
As many as 24 troopers of the EFR, a state paramilitary force, were killed in the attack on the Silda camp Feb 15 last year. A large cache of arms was also looted.
The CID has already submitted chargesheet against at least 23 Maoist ultras, including Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) top leader Kishenji.
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