Arms dug out from Netai accused's plot

LALGARH: Police on Saturday dug out arms from an agricultural plot, owned by Netai case accused Md Kaliluddin, near a dam in Lalgarh's Belaticri Nera village. Khaliluddin, a district CPM leader, has been absconding.
Belaticri residents on Saturday morning noticed barrel-like objects jutting out of the ground and informed police. Cops reached the spot soon and starting digging Khaliluddin's plot.They then seized 10 arms, including an SBBL country-made gun, six pistols, .315 long-range rifles and .303 rifles, said West Midnapore SP Sunil Choudhary. "We are probing who had buried the guns," he added.
Trinamool Lalgarh block president Bano Bihari Roy said the weapons were found 4 feet below the ground and were wrapped in polythene sheets. The party's working president Pradyot Ghosh alleged: "CPM leaders had set up an arms factory here before the last assembly elections. They had come back to this area to unearth some arms left behind and use them during the coming panchayat elections. However, CPM district secretary Dipak Sarkar countered: "We are being framed in false cases."
"The charge sheet in the Netai case was submitted before the Jhargram subdivisional court. While 12 of those named in it are already in judicial custody, the whereabouts of eight is not known," CBI counsel Partha Tapaswi said. Arrest warrants for the eight had been issued on May 18, 2011. Though the then Left Front government had asked the CID to probe the killings, a division bench of Calcutta high court had handed over the case to the CBI on February 18, 2011.