Morcha leader held

SNS, KURSEONG, 9 DECEMBER: A leader of the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) (Bimal Gurung camp), Bimal Darjee, was arrested by the Kurseong police today under various charges related to last year's Gorkhaland agitation in the Hills.

The leader from Tindharia under the Kurseong sub-division was produced before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Court in Kurseong today.

Asked at the Kurseong sub-divisional hospital in the morning today, Mr Darjee said that a team of police personnel visited his house in Tindharia early morning yesterday and told him that senior police officials wanted to talk to him.  Police had taken him to the hospital for a medical examination.

Mr Darjee was the Central Committee member of the GJMM's Bimal Gurung camp. He had later joined the GJMM's faction led by Binoy Tamang and Anit Thapa. He was, however, inactive in the party for the past several months.