October 22, 2009 06:52 pm | Updated November 17, 2021 06:45 am IST - Midnapore
Chhatradhar Mahato, leader of the Maoist-backed People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities. File photo: Arunangsu Roy Chowdhury
Chhatradhar Mahato, convener of the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities, was on Thursday remanded to judicial custody till November 5 by a court at Jhargram in West Midnapore district.
The PCAPA leader was produced in the court of Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate Sheikh Mohammed Reza in connection with the case of murder of a local CPI(M) leader from Kantapahari Prabir Mahato.
Posing as journalists police had arrested Chhatradhar Mahato on September 26 near Lalgarh.
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