CPI-M activist shot dead in West Bengal
By IANSSunday, January 10, 2010
KOLKATA - A group of suspected Maoist ultras gunned down a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activist in West Bengal’s Purulia district Sunday evening, police said.
The shootout took place at Dhadka village under Bandwan police station in the district when a group of unidentified people shot Dhanu Rajak, a member of the party’s district committee, dead near a local market and fled the spot.
“We are investigating the case,” an officer of Bandwan police told IANS by phone.
He said the incident took place around 5 p.m.
Rajak was on the hit-list of the Maoists for a long time, local sources said.
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