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Home alerted to minister's arms smuggling

Home alerted to minister's arms smuggling

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Publication: News Insight
Date: August 26, 2004

For nearly three weeks now, the Union home ministry has been sitting over a damaging report about a Union minister's arms smuggling activity from Bangladesh and his burgeoning contacts with Nepal's Maoist insurgents.

The report prepared by the security agencies came on the direction of prime minister Manmohan Singh, who was dissatisfied with the vetting of the minister at swearing in, since his activities had been described as "suspicious".

Deeper investigations reveal that the minister is actively colluding with Bangladeshi arms smugglers and is backing gun-running activities for the last two years on the Bihar-West Bengal border and in such places as Buxar, Katihar, Siliguri, Jalpaiguri, Purulia, Murshidabad, and Dinajpur.

In the recent general elections, the report says, he was the main arms supplier for the cadres of a particular regional political party.

"The report was sent to the home ministry more than three weeks ago," an official disclosed, "but no action has been taken so far."

The junior minister in the Manmohan government first came under agency scanners when the West Bengal Police arrested two ISI contacts with links to him three years ago.
 


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