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The Jharkhand police arrested a lawyer under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) at Kandu Mohalla, Daltonganj district on June 21.
From this sentence, the following information was extracted.
Jharkhand Kandu Mohalla DaltonganjKannur
arrest The Jharkhand police a lawyerThis data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.
The Jharkhand police arrested a lawyer under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) at Kandu Mohalla, Daltonganj district on June 21. A 9 mm bore foreign-made police pistol with two magazines, a 1.38 bore service revolver, 30 rounds of 9 mm cartridges and 8 rounds of 0.38 bore cartridges were recovered from his possession. The district police chief said the lawyer, Sunil Prakash, during interrogation, confessed that the arms belonged to left-wing extremist, Naxalite of the People's War Group (PWG) and were handed over to him by a member of the outfit. The district police chief added that the hiding of the weapons in the lawyer's house could be a calculated move of the PWG and apprehended that the Naxals might be planning an attack in the town.
| Event ID | Date | Country | Storyhead |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8651-14797-35521 | 6/23/2002 | India | Lawyer arrested under POTA in Jharkhand, arms seized |
The original source are newspaper clippings and extracts collected by the South Asian Terrorism Portal.
Note: incidences are geocoded by the district centroid.
In the same newspaper clipping is further information on the events:
| Event ID | Date | Country | Act | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8651-14797-35521 | 6/23/2002 | India | arrest | Kannur |