Patna. Patna ADJ 3 Vinay Prakash Tiwari released Tusharkant Bhattacharya alias Raghu alias Shyam alias Prakash alias Srikant alias JR Sahu of Andhra Pradesh’s hardcore Naxalite and Maoist CPIM People’s War Group due to lack of evidence. Tusharkant is originally a resident of APS Colony Kagaz Nagar, Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh. He was arrested along with Brajmohan from a house located in Dujra Fish Market of Buddha Colony police station on 18 September 2007.
Charge sheet was filed in the court on 14 December 2007
Tusharkant Bhattacharya was living in that house with a rented flat. Some documents and a laptop were found from them. After this, investigation revealed that they were planning to thwart the government machinery by holding a secret meeting and collecting lethal weapons. After this, the police filed a charge sheet in the court on 14 December 2007. It is said that in this case, 11 policemen including the then head of the Buddha Colony police station, Ramesh Kumar, were made witnesses. Despite repeated instructions from the court, no witness came to testify in the court and then the court released him on Monday due to lack of evidence.
Operation Triple U was revealed after the arrest
After the arrest of Tusharkant, a laptop and some documents were recovered from him. It was during this time that it was revealed that Tusharkant had come from Andhra Pradesh to plan to make Operation Triple U successful. Operation Triple U meant that the Naxalite organization was to expand in Uttar Pradesh, North Bihar and Uttarakhand. Because the organization of Naxalites in these places was not strong at that time. The Naxalites had just tried to expand the organization in North Bihar when Tusharkant was arrested. At that time the Naxalite organization had suffered a severe blow due to his arrest.
Patna Police had told about its big success
According to media reports, on September 20, 2007, Bihar Police arrested this top Naxalite leader Tushar Kant Bhattacharya from a rented house in Dujra area of Patna. Acting on an intelligence input, a team led by DSP Vinod Kumar of the Special Task Force also arrested Umeshji, another associate of Tushar. Patna Police had described the arrest of these two as a big success.
Cases are registered in police stations of many states
It is said that these people were living in Patna since July. Police had recovered a huge quantity of Naxalite literature, explosives, pen drives and training equipment from Tushar. Tushar, accused in several murder cases in the Naxal-affected Karimnagar, Prakasam and Adilabad districts of Andhra Pradesh between 1974 and 1980, is said to be the chief of CPI (Maoist) Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and North Bihar.