There is no evidence of the involvement of any Indian politician or government agency in the Purulia arms-drop case of 1995, the Central Bureau of Investigation said on Friday.
The agency also dismissed key accused Kim Davy's claims that the clandestine work was carried out by “political forces” at the Centre to destabilise the Left Front government in West Bengal.
The CBI said it had “clinching” evidence of his “act of terror” and was making efforts to bring him to India to face trial.
“The CBI has elaborate details of the manner in which he carried out the arms drop. There is no evidence [to prove] that any government agency or Indian politician helped him,” CBI spokesperson Dharini Mishra said.
Kim Davy told a private news channel that the P.V. Narasimha Rao government had plotted the operation to destabilise the West Bengal government by arming locals in the State.
“The CBI has been able to establish in the Indian court and to the Danish government that Kim Davy's crime is tantamount to an act of terror,” Ms. Mishra said in a statement.
Sources in the government brushed aside Kim Davy's claim as “far-fetched” and a last-ditch effort to complicate his extradition from Denmark.
If the Indian agencies were involved, “why would the government seek the extradition of Kim Davy from the Danish government,” the sources said.
