Statesman News Service
MALDA, Feb. 27. — The breakaway group of the Kamtapur People’s Party, the Kamtapur Liberation Party, has called a 12-hour bandh in North Bengal on 10 March to protest against the high-handedness of police, party leaders said today. The breakaway KPP leader, Mr Subhash Barman, said the police have picked up KPP members in connection with the arrest of Malkhan Singh, the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation militant from Gangarampur in South Dinajpur and have put them up in the English Bazaar police station in Malda, without informing the police station concerned. Mr Barman said that after the arrest of Singh, alias Madhab Mandal, police atrocities have been on the rise in the zone.He also alleged that KPP workers were being harassed and tortured by the police. Though, as per the police administration, extortion by means of threat letters in the name of KLO has abated, but police have received some threat complaints recently from KPP-dominated zones such as Bamongola, Gazole and other adjoining areas. After the murder of a CPI-M worker at Pakuahaat in Bamongola, police thought that KLO men were directly linked to the murder. But after Singh’s interrogation, police officers were continuously conduting raids in the area.
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