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West Bengal govt uncertain over ownership of Kishenji's laptop

Meanwhile, PCPA spokesman Asit Mahto claimed that the two women who were arrested yesterday by the joint forces on suspicion of being Maoists in Lalgarh were the close relatives of PCPA supporters.

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The West Bengal government today said it was not sure if the laptop, seized by joint security forces in a raid at jungles in West Midnapore district, belonged to elusive Maoist leader Kishenji.

Chief secretary Ashok Mohan Chakraborty told reporters here that it was being verified whether the laptop belonged to Kishenji. "I won't say a lie. It is being seen," he said. However, sources in the police indicated that the laptop was used by the Maoists, but did not belong to Kishenji.

"We are trying to decode the laptop and we might take the help of experts also," the sources said.

Meanwhile, PCPA spokesman Asit Mahto claimed that the two women who were arrested yesterday by the joint forces on suspicion of being Maoists in Lalgarh were the close relatives of PCPA supporters Joydeb Bera and Raju Adak.

The two PCPA supporters had gone missing after they were arrested by the Lalgrah police last month.

"Sefali Bera, daughter of Joydeb Bera, and Kanika Adak, wife of Raju Adak, were going to see Raju's mother at Midnapore when they were picked up by the joint forces," Mahto told PTI over phone.

Mahto alleged they had been falsely accused of possessing arms and it had been done only to suppress the case of Joydeb and Raju whom the Lalgrah police failed to produce at the court yet.

Mahto claimed Joydeb and Raju were picked up by the Lalgrah police on December 6 last year and as they were not produced in the court, Raju's wife Kanika and Joydeb's wife Anjali made a formal complaint to Jhargram's SDO on December 11.

SDO, Ulganathan P, then ordered the police to produce the duo, if arrested, in court, by December 24. However, the police to this day failed to produce them, Mahto said.

The West Midnapore superintendent of police, Monoj Kumar Verma, said, "We can only produce persons only if we arrest them. We have not arrested them and so there is no question of producing them in court."

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