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Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy,who was being taken by Delhi Police to West Bengal for a court hearing,was brought back to Tihar Jail from Allahabad following a tip-off that the Naxalites “planned” to attack the train and free him.
Police had to abort mid-way their plan to take him to a court in Bengal in connection with the Maoist attack on the convoy route of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and then Union Minister Ramvilas Paswan in 2008.
Sources said they received an intelligence tip-off on Sunday while on transit that Maoists may attack the train and free Ghandy. “The input was passed on to the Delhi Armed Police team which was taking him. They then decided to abort the journey mid-way and brought him back to Tihar jail,” a senior police official said.
Ghandy and the police team were at Allahabad when the input was received. A Tihar jail official said Ghandy was taken into custody from jail by Delhi Police on Saturday and brought back on Monday.
A Polit Bureau member of the proscribed CPI (Maoist),Ghandy was arrested in the national capital on September 20,2009 by the Special Cell of Delhi Police. Ghandy,who was in charge of spreading Maoist influence in urban areas and headed its publication wing,is at presently lodged in Jail No 3 of Tihar.
An alumnus of the prestigious Doon School,Ghandy was in the top echelons of the erstwhile CPI (ML-PW) from 1981 and continued as Central Committee member in CPI (Maoist). He was elected to the CPI (Maoist) Politburo in 2007.
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