Four persons – suspected as Maoists – were arrested in West Bengal’s Jangalmahal area on Tuesday by the Goaltore police. They were rounded up from the Makli gram panchayat area.
One of the four persons had been arrested earlier for alleged links with Maoist organisations. According to police, some documents with Maoist links had been found in their possession.
Later, some students in Kolkata and members of the Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) organised a protest in Kolkata. According to some, the four had gone to the Jangalmahal area to conduct a survey. However, police said that they had acted on a tip-off about presence of some persons with Maoist links and thus had to intervene.
