[Reader-list] Maoists using students for overground work in Delhi: Police

[Pawan Durani]

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Maoists using students for overground work in Delhi: Police

Maoists were using 'sympathetic' students for 'overground' party work
in the New Delhi [ Images ] where they were also organising displaced
labourers under its umbrella, police sources said on Thursday.

Sources claimed Gopal Mishra and his wife Anu, who were arrested early
this week, were into 'talent hunting' and had used the services of
some 'Left-leaning' students to propagate Maoist ideology in the
capital.

Investigators are looking for a post-graduate student of a prominent
university for his alleged links with Maoists. However, they refused
to identify the student.

Police had earlier claimed Mishra, a trade union leader, was the Delhi
chief of proscribed Communist Party of India-Maoist who was looking
after party operations in New Delhi. He was running 'Mehnathkush
Mazdoor Morcha', a little known trade union.

Mishra, who worked among workers in Noida Sector-IV industrial area
and north-east Delhi, was also said to be running a Hindi weekly.

Sources claimed their main targets were unorganised labourers and they
had managed to recruit around 25 people to the fold. However, it was
not clear whether they were given party membership or were just
sympathisers.

Police had seized a laptop and 10 CDs from the couple, which experts
are examining.

Mishra and his wife were also posing as proof readers in an editing
firm, sources said.

Mishra used to conduct meetings of leaders of the party near his house
in Ramnagar in east Delhi, the sources said, adding they were
verifying the names of those who attended such meetings.

Investigators are conducting searches in several places of the capital.

Mishra's wife Anu allegedly used to attend party meetings and record
minutes. Documents were also seized from their rented accommodation,
sources said.

A post-graduate in psychology, Mishra was an active member of
CPI-Maoist and was tasked with bringing unorganised labourers under a
trade union, sources said.

Police sources had earlier said during investigations into the Maoist
network in the capital it came to light that the extremists were
infiltrating into trade unions here.

They had an active trade union in Okhla Industrial area. The Maoists
were also targeting displaced labourers and bringing them into their
fold, they said.