Intel agencies keeping watchful eye on KLo men

SNS, Siliguri, 17 February 2014:Intelligence agencies are keeping a close tab on the movements of Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) leaders who are supposedly hiding in Nepal.
Following the arrest of the KLO vice-chairman Tom Adhikary and finance secretary Nilambar Rajbansi and others, north Bengal police may now give a hand at arresting another senior outfit leader, Abhijit Singha alias Apple, who is suspected to have taken shelter in neighbouring Nepal.
According to intelligence inputs, the outfit has completed training for its cadres up to the 16th batch.
“The arrest of Tom and Nilambar is a very important breakthrough for police. Both the KLO top guns and other leaders had been hiding in Nepal. Abhijit Singha alias Apple, who hails from the Kharibari area, is another senior leader who is hiding in Nepal. His arrest is very important,” intelligence sources said.
The intelligence agencies are also trying to confirm the present whereabouts of another KLO leader Jamai alias Nitya.
“He basically hails from Assam, but he also at times lived in Nepal. Locating his present whereabouts is an important task at hand. We also came to know that another dreaded KLO militant Malkhan Singha, who fled Nepal and restrained his movement along the Malda-Bangladesh border,” the sources said.
According to the inputs of the agencies, the outfit has so far trained a good number of youths.
“Along with the recruitment drive, it has simultaneously been providing training to the youths in areas of Myanmar and Bhutan. We have received information that the training up to the 16th batch has been completed and this is a matter of concern. The aim of the KLO is to terrorise people and make its presence felt in the region,” the sources added.
It is learnt that investigations have revealed that Tom, who was the mastermind of the Bajrapara blast in Jalpaiguri on 26 December, hatched the plan with Deka, Rajbanasi and others in a hotel in Birtamore in Eastern Nepal around two weeks before the incident. Six people were killed in the explosion.