CID looking for woman Maoist leader

Kolkata, June 30: After the arrest of five Maoists, including a top aide of senior leaders Kishenji and Telgu Dipak, who led the 2007 Nandigram movement, the CID was today looking for a woman leader.

The CID, which arrested the five from South 24 Parganas district adjoining the metropolis yesterday, became aware of the woman leader after seizing a letter which was to be delivered to her by one of the arrested Maoists.

The letter addressed to ‘Debu’ was meant for Debolina Chakraborty, a resident of Tollygunj here and an active member of the Matangini Mahila Samity, the outfit’s women’s wing, DIG (CID) Anuj Sharma said.

CID sources said that she earlier resided at Konnagar in Hooghly district and had been married to a person named Avijit Mukherjee.

–Agencies