{"id":231,"date":"2018-05-01T22:44:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T17:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=231"},"modified":"2018-05-05T10:41:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T05:11:39","slug":"maoist-arrested-by-kolkata-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/maoist-arrested-by-kolkata-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of PM Modi\u2019s visit to Nepal, Maoist leader connected with blasts picked up from Delhi by Kolkata Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s visit to Nepal next week, the Kolkata Police\u2019s Special Task Force has picked up a Maoist leader from Delhi who was involved in a bomb blast in that country in mid-April targeting an office of the Indian Consulate, and was planning more attacks.<\/p>\n<p>There was a second bomb blast in Nepal, which took place two days ago near a power dam where the Prime Minister is expected to visit shortly.<\/p>\n<p>A team of Nepal Police has come down to Kolkata also to probe the alleged connection of the CPI-ML Red Star with the Maoists in that country.<\/p>\n<p>The CPI-ML Red Star from Bengal has long been agitating in the Bhangar area protesting the construction of a power grid.<\/p>\n<p>Kolkata Police\u2019s Special Task Force has picked up 60 year old Suresh Kumar Rai \u2013 who hails from Nepal\u2019s Morang \u2013 from Delhi last week. Rai is district secretary of the CPI-ML Red Star (Biplab Group) of Nepal. He has allegedly confessed that he was involved in a pressure cooker bomb blast targeting an office of the Indian Consulate in Birat Nagar on April 16. His associates were arrested by Nepal Police, but he ran away and took shelter in Delhi. Rai has apparently told police that the Biplab Group has plans to target more Indian establishments in Nepal.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233\" style=\"width: 798px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-233\" src=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/IMG-20180501-WA0017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"798\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/IMG-20180501-WA0017.jpg 798w, https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/IMG-20180501-WA0017-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/IMG-20180501-WA0017-768x1232.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/IMG-20180501-WA0017-638x1024.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The arrested SK Rai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rai is allegedly connected with the CPI-ML Red Star India. Apparently, his brother is an active member of the CPI-ML Red Star at Raigunj and both have connections with the party\u2019s West Bengal wing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234\" style=\"width: 1032px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-234\" src=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/IMG-20180501-WA0016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1032\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/IMG-20180501-WA0016.jpg 1032w, https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/IMG-20180501-WA0016-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/IMG-20180501-WA0016-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/IMG-20180501-WA0016-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1032px) 100vw, 1032px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the remains of the bomb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s visit to Nepal next week, the Kolkata Police\u2019s Special Task Force has picked up a Maoist&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}