Phd scholar with Maoist links held

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NDTV Correspondent, Tuesday February 9, 2010, Lucknow

Uttar Pradesh police claims it has made the biggest Maoist catch since the arrest of Khobad Ghandy last year.

Two top-rung leaders, one of them a PhD scholar from Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University are in custody.

Police said two men, Chintan and Balraj, were among 11 Naxalite leaders arrested in a night raid at Allahabad, Gorakhpur and Kanpur.

Chintan, 64, has PhD degrees from JNU, police say Balraj, 51, is a science graduate. Both were close to Ghandy - the Doon School-educated chartered accountant turned Maoist ideologue who was arrested in September last year in Delhi.

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Tags: Jawaharlal Nehru University, JNU scholar, Naxal attack

Posted by Karavadi Raghava Rao on Feb 09, 2010

In the early days of Naxalism mostly there are highly educated intellectuals including poets,doctors,engineers and so on. But now mostly it is a mass organization.

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