Absconding former CPI-M MP Laxman Seth was arrested by West Bengal CID from a Mumbai suburb in connection with Nandigram violence in which six persons were killed in 2007. Seth was arrested yesterday along with former MLA Amiya Seth and CPI-M district committee member Ashok Guria. A court in Haldia in East Midnapore district in West Bengal had on February 27 issued a non bailable warrant against Laxman Seth whose name figured in the charge sheet filed by the CID against 85 people for their alleged involvement in the death of six persons and disappearance of seven others during the Nandigram movement in 2007.
News On AIR | March 18, 2012 9:47 AM
Former CPI-M MP held in Mumbai for Nandigram violence