PM assassination plot: Hunt begins for Assam accused

‘ Naxals, Simi sleeper cells under scanner’ AGE CORRESPONDENT BHOPAL, JUNE 9

The security agencies have launched a hunt for comrade Prakash alias Nabin Mech alias Rituparna Goswami, who hails from Assam in connection with a sensational letter that has revealed Maoist plan to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Indicating that Rituparna Goswami, a former student at JNU, is believed to have been leading a normal life somewhere in Assam, security forces did not rule out the possibility of Rituparna Goswami’s name being misused by Maoist cadres.

Pointing out that Rituparna Goswami was associated with left ideologies, while in JNU, sources in Assam Police however said that they are yet to get any direction from home ministry to corroborate the findings of Maharashtra police.

Pune police claimed to have intercepted a purported letter between Maoist leaders. The letter is addressed to a Maoist leader named Prakash.

The rational for the alleged assassination plot in the letter is to end ModiRaj because of the electoral victories of the BJP and its allies in assembly elections.

Though, security agencies are tight lipped about the media reports, the ongoing investigation into the Maoist plot to assassinate Prime Minister Intelligence agencies have stepped up vigilance on Maoists’ urban networks and sleeper cells of Students Islamic Movement of India ( SIMI) in Chhattisgarh, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled visit to the state on June 14.

Security has been tightened in six districts in Chhattisgarh in the wake of reports that Maoists were hatching a conspiracy to eliminate him in Rajiv Gandhi- style assassination.

Mr Modi was scheduled to inaugurate a newly commissioned unit in Bhilai Steel Plan, a public sector undertaking, in Durg district in Chhattisgarh, on June 14.

Narendra Modi during a roadshow has pointed finger towards Rituparna also referred as Ritupam Goswami who is reported to have been leading a normal in Upper Assam’s Tinsukia district. Though, some Maoist activities had come to light in the district till 2014, local police said that they had succeeded in quelling the modules at their initial stage of recruitment.