»Congress Planned 1995 Purulia Arms Drop to Oust Left Front in WB; India Seeking Extradition: Niels Holck
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Congress Planned 1995 Purulia Arms Drop to Oust Left Front in WB; India Seeking Extradition: Niels Holck
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Speaking to News18.com on the phone, the alleged key conspirator said the case was closed in 2011 in Denmark and now the Indian government is trying to make a new case, which he maintained was illegal.
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Twenty-five years ago, villagers in Bengal’s Purulia district were woken up around midnight by the roar of an Antonov An-26 Latvian aircraft.
The crew dropped a large consignment of arms including several hundred AK-47 rifles and more than sixteen thousand rounds of ammunition over a large area in Jhalda, Khatanga, Belamu and Maramu villages on December 17, 1995. Locals informed the police who confiscated the weapons.