Suspected Maoist conduit’s judicial custody extended (Lead)
October 5th, 2011 - 8:32 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) A Delhi court Wednesday extended till Oct 7 the judicial custody of suspected Maoist conduit Soni Sori, accused of receiving “protection money” from the Essar group on behalf of the rebels.
Sori, a tribal teacher, was Tuesday arrested by Chhattisgarh Police from south Delhi’s Katwaria Sarai area.
She was presented before a magistrate after her one-day judicial custody expired Wednesday.
The magistrate is likely to pronounce an order Oct 7 on an application sought by Chhattisgarh Police seeking her transit remand.
Chhattisgarh Police, in July, filed a case against Sori for allegedly collecting Rs.15 lakh from a contractor of the Essar group.
Following the registration of the case, police picked up her nephew Lingaram Kodopi in Chhattisgarh accusing him of being a Maoist sympathiser. He alleged that police had implicated him.
In 2010, Chhattisgarh Police booked Sori in a case related to an attack on Congress leader Avdesh Gautam’s house.
There were five different cases registered against Sori in Chhattisgarh under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, police said.
Sori, who left her studies in a medical college for a government job at Sameli village as warden of a residential school for girls, later went into hiding.
An Essar group general manager D.V.C.S. Verma was arrested Sep 27 from Raipur for his alleged role in paying “protection money” to the Maoists to help the company reopen a 267-km iron ore slurry supply pipeline in Dantewada district. The company denied the allegations of paying money to the rebels.
His arrest followed questioning of Essar contractor B.K. Lala who was caught while handing over Rs.15 lakh to the rebels.
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