Hyderabad: Crime Investigation Department of West Bengal arrested five suspects from Hyderabad in connection with the infamous Netai massacre. The CPM activists had allegedly fired at innocent villagers, killing nine persons in 2011.
Officials said that Bengal CID team made the arrest one day ago with the help of state CID top officials.
A CID team, headed by its special superintendent Bharati Ghosh, picked up Dalim Pandey and Rathin Dandapat, from whose house the firing allegedly took place, along with Joydeb Giri, Tapan De and Md Khaliluddin from their hideout in Hyderabad.
All five accused were given transit remand for a day by West Midnapore CJM’s court and would be produced before Jhargram ACJM’s court where the case is committed.
After production before the ACJM’s court, they would be handed over to the CBI, which is investigating the case, the government counsel said.
“They admitted that they were hiding in Nellore earlier and in some other places before taking refuge in the Hyderabad,” Ms Ghosh said.
She added that CBI, which is investigating the case, had sought the state police’s assistance on some occasions in connection with the case.
Ms Ghosh was recently removed as SP of West Midnapore district on direction from Election Commission and was posted as special superintendent of CID.
Of the 20 accused in the case, 17 have so far been arrested while three are still absconding.
Nine villagers were killed in indiscriminate firing, allegedly from a house owned by local CPM leader Dandapat at Netai village in West Midnapore district on January 7, 2011.
