Raipur: On Friday, the Chhattisgarh police arrested Dharmendra Chopra, a prominent businessman, near the airport here as he was rushing to catch a Delhi flight.
Thereafter the police claimed that a “massive urban network” of Maoists was detected. Chopra and his nephew Neeraj, who was arrested the previous day, were allegedly looking after the financial and logistics interests of Maoists in the State.
The police said the two were facilitating supplies of consumables, delivering lakhs of rupees to other States to fund purchase of weapons and “fixing deals” between mining companies and Maoist leaders. Interestingly, the businessman was arrested while he was travelling in the vehicle of Kanker MP Sohan Potai.
19/01/14 Suvojit Bagchi/The Hindu
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Thereafter the police claimed that a “massive urban network” of Maoists was detected. Chopra and his nephew Neeraj, who was arrested the previous day, were allegedly looking after the financial and logistics interests of Maoists in the State.
The police said the two were facilitating supplies of consumables, delivering lakhs of rupees to other States to fund purchase of weapons and “fixing deals” between mining companies and Maoist leaders. Interestingly, the businessman was arrested while he was travelling in the vehicle of Kanker MP Sohan Potai.
19/01/14 Suvojit Bagchi/The Hindu
