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Rebels suspected to be behind assassination attempt on Indian official

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-03-06 20:59
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KOLKATA, India - The high profile Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the government of West Bengal state in eastern India here said on Saturday that it would soon solve the case of the 2008 attack on state Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.

The CID has arrested an extreme left-wing rebel leader Telugu Deepak who is alleged to be behind the attack, said state government officials.

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Sources in CID revealed that Deepak and rebel idealogue Kobad Ghandy are likely to be jointly interrogated in this regard in Kolkata.

Ghandy was the only top leader of the Naxal rebel group who was arrested after the blast on the Chief Minister's convoy in November 2008 in Salboni of West Midnapore in West Bengal.

Telugu Deepak has confessed the Naxal rebels were behind the blast, saying the decision to launch the landmine attack on Chief Minister's convoy was taken by the top leadership of the Naxal rebels, said the sources.

West Bengal CID sources said that the Naxal leadership entrusted another rebel leader Kishenji to carry out the task, who later passed it on to Deepak.

Rebel ideologue Kobad Ghandy is being brought to Kolkata for cross-examination, said the sources.

Police also feared the rebels would stage a new resistance movement in Haripur in West Bengal where the government plans to acquire land to set up a nuclear power plant.
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