Information About Incident 42228-81225-202754 in Kanpur India

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Eight cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), including two members of its Central Committee and Polit Bureau, were arrested by the Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh Police in Kanpur on February 8,according to The Hindu.

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Eight cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), including two members of its Central Committee and Polit Bureau, were arrested by the Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh Police in Kanpur on February 8,according to The Hindu. A half-truckload of printed material, a number of CDs, a pen drive, INR 816 000 in cash and a fake driving licence were seized from them, Director-General of Police (DGP) Karamveer Singh said. Among the arrested was Balraj alias B.R. alias Arvind, head of the northern regional bureau of the Maoists and Central Committee member and associate of Maoist ideologue Kobad Ghandy. The others arrested were Banshidhar alias Chintan Da, another polit bureau member, Naveen Prasad Singh, Ambrish, Deepak Ram, Shivraj Singh alias Arjun, Rajendra Kumar Phulara alias Arvind and Kripa Shankar alias Manoj. A Ph. D and M. Phil. holder from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Chintan had spent three years in jail, the DGP said. Both he and Balraj, a B.Sc. graduate, belong to Bihar.

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42228-81225-202754 2/9/2010 India Maoist network busted in Uttar Pradesh

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