New Delhi [India], October 1 (ANI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday searched multiple locations in various districts of West Bengal in a case involving a CPI (Maoist) conspiracy to revive its presence in the Eastern Regional Bureau area.

NIA teams conducted elaborate searches at the houses of suspects at a total of 11 locations in South 24 Pargana, Asansol, Howrah, Nadia and Kolkata districts of the state.

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The suspects were overground workers of CPI (Maoist) and were believed to have assisted the organisation's commanders in carrying out Naxal activities, the NIA stated.

Today's searches led to the seizure of several incriminating documents, electronics devices, pamphlets, magazines, and handwritten letters.

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The case RC-01/2022/NIA/RNC relates to a conspiracy by the Polit Bureau/Central Committee members, cadres and sympathisers of the banned terrorist organisation.

The conspiracy is aimed at reviving, expanding and propagating the ideology of CPI (Maoist) in Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and other states in the northern and eastern regions of India.

A total of six accused, including CPI (Maoist) Polit Bureau members Prashant Bose and Pramod Mishra, and Central Committee Sabyasachi Goswami, have so far been arrested in the case, registered at NIA Police Station Ranchi in April 2022, under various sections of IPC and UA(P) Act. Thirteen top CPI (Maoist) leaders were named in the FIR along with others.

Further investigations is underway. (ANI)

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