RAIPUR
: NIA has arrested another suspect in the assassination of
Chhattisgarh BJP MLA Bhima Mandavi
and four policemen in
Bastar
last year. This is the fourth arrest within a week.
NIA officials said that the suspect, Haripal Singh Chauhan of Dantewada, was a “co-conspirator” in the killing. According to a statement released by the central agency, 44-year-old Haripal is a resident of Nakulnar in Dantewada and was arrested on August 3 by NIA officers. “Investigation has revealed that Haripal, a wholesale dealer of daily-needs goods, was a co-conspirator, along with the others arrested, and had procured material for the Maoist IED blast that killed Bhima Mandavi and four police personnel,” an NIA official said.
The suspect was produced before the NIA Special Court in
Jagdalpur
on Tuesday and remanded in the agency’s custody for three days. NIA made the first arrests in the case on April 7 by nabbing suspects Bhima Tati and Madka Ram Tati, residents of Patelpara in Dantewada.
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