Information About Incident 43379-83631-209146 in Jamnagar India

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Surat Police arrested Nagpur (Maharashtra) based retired Customs Officer, Vishwanath Vardharajan Iyer (60), for suspected links with Naxalites (Left Wing Extremists), reported Indian Express.

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• Meta Location: Nagpur Maharashtra
• Matched District: Jamnagar
• Actgroup: arrest
• Actor: Surat Police
• Subject: Nagpur

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Surat Police arrested Nagpur (Maharashtra) based retired Customs Officer, Vishwanath Vardharajan Iyer (60), for suspected links with Naxalites (Left Wing Extremists), reported Indian Express. According to the Police, Iyer is among those who provided guerrilla warfare training to a few Naxals from Gujarat in the forests in Kerala, sometime in 2000. The Police are probing Iyer s links with the Philippines Communist Party, which is believed to have conducted the training camp in Kerala. Iyer belongs to Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu and was one of the central committee members of the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist Janshakti (CPI-ML-Janshakti).

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