Vivek Chhetri
Darjeeling, Dec. 24: Members of the NSCN (Khaplang) faction had stayed in Darjeeling in July and Sanjay Thulung, the expelled Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) leader wanted in the Assam arms haul case, organised their hotel stay, according to police sources.
The NSCN(K), which is not banned by the Centre, is a secessionist outfit accused of several attacks on security forces in Nagaland.
The police sources did not give details on whether the purported NSCN(K) members held talks with any political leader in the hills. One of their leaders Sanjay Chhetri, who is mentioned in an arms case FIR along with Thulung, was among the NSCN(K) members who visited Darjeeling in July, the police source said.
The district Intelligence Branch is probing a case related to the recovery of a rifle, 22 rounds of live ammunition and five leaflets of a little-known outfit called the Gorkhaland Liberation Army. The seizure of arms and ammunition was made at 27th Mile in Darjeeling on December 6.
Police in Darjeeling have linked this seizure to the one in Assam on November 8 when the police in the neighbouring state seized an M16 rifle, two Beretta pistols, three .32-bore pistols, 300 rounds of 9mm ammunition, 80 rounds of AK-series ammunition, 198 rounds of M16 ammunition and 60 rounds of .32 ammunition.
Two persons, Umesh Kami and Ganesh Chhetri, were arrested when they were transporting the arms from Assam to north Bengal.
A police source said: "Sanjay Chhetri, a resident of Dimapur and a member of the NSCN(K), had come to Darjeeling along with several members. During their stay in July this year, they were also accompanied by women and children. They probably were family members."
The police source today said that Kami, who is a GTA worker, had revealed during interrogation details about the visit of the supposed NSCN(K) members to Darjeeling in July.
The CID here arrested Kami and Ganesh Chhetri against a pending FIR related to an arms case in Bhaktinagar, near Siliguri, in January this year.
The police source said that after the first Darjeeling visit, the NSCN(K) leaders "left for Pashupatinagar in Nepal, and then to Kalimpong. After staying in Kalimpong for two days, they returned to Darjeeling and checked into another hotel for a night. We are being told that the bookings were done by Sanjay Thulung."
The investigators have seized the registers of both the hotels and the source said that the entries in them confirmed that one of the visitors was Sanjay Chhetri.
The CID in its FIR in the December 6 arms haul had said that Sanjay Chhetri, Rahul Chhetri and Diku Chhetri, all residents of Nagaland's Dimapur and alleged members of the NSCN(K), had sold the arms seized in Assam. Thulung was named in the FIR.
Source: Telegraph
Darjeeling, Dec. 24: Members of the NSCN (Khaplang) faction had stayed in Darjeeling in July and Sanjay Thulung, the expelled Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) leader wanted in the Assam arms haul case, organised their hotel stay, according to police sources.
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| Sanjay Thulung, the expelled Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leader |
The police sources did not give details on whether the purported NSCN(K) members held talks with any political leader in the hills. One of their leaders Sanjay Chhetri, who is mentioned in an arms case FIR along with Thulung, was among the NSCN(K) members who visited Darjeeling in July, the police source said.
The district Intelligence Branch is probing a case related to the recovery of a rifle, 22 rounds of live ammunition and five leaflets of a little-known outfit called the Gorkhaland Liberation Army. The seizure of arms and ammunition was made at 27th Mile in Darjeeling on December 6.
Police in Darjeeling have linked this seizure to the one in Assam on November 8 when the police in the neighbouring state seized an M16 rifle, two Beretta pistols, three .32-bore pistols, 300 rounds of 9mm ammunition, 80 rounds of AK-series ammunition, 198 rounds of M16 ammunition and 60 rounds of .32 ammunition.
Two persons, Umesh Kami and Ganesh Chhetri, were arrested when they were transporting the arms from Assam to north Bengal.
A police source said: "Sanjay Chhetri, a resident of Dimapur and a member of the NSCN(K), had come to Darjeeling along with several members. During their stay in July this year, they were also accompanied by women and children. They probably were family members."
The police source today said that Kami, who is a GTA worker, had revealed during interrogation details about the visit of the supposed NSCN(K) members to Darjeeling in July.
The CID here arrested Kami and Ganesh Chhetri against a pending FIR related to an arms case in Bhaktinagar, near Siliguri, in January this year.
The police source said that after the first Darjeeling visit, the NSCN(K) leaders "left for Pashupatinagar in Nepal, and then to Kalimpong. After staying in Kalimpong for two days, they returned to Darjeeling and checked into another hotel for a night. We are being told that the bookings were done by Sanjay Thulung."
The investigators have seized the registers of both the hotels and the source said that the entries in them confirmed that one of the visitors was Sanjay Chhetri.
The CID in its FIR in the December 6 arms haul had said that Sanjay Chhetri, Rahul Chhetri and Diku Chhetri, all residents of Nagaland's Dimapur and alleged members of the NSCN(K), had sold the arms seized in Assam. Thulung was named in the FIR.
Source: Telegraph
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