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LC KOLKATA SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26, 2011 Pages 16+8 ` 2.50 Weekender World Twilight saga lacks punch NLD eyes political comeback The latest franchise in the series, Breaking Dawn, does Aung San Suu Kyi’s party takes first step towards not live up to its hype P8 mainstream politics P10 BRIEFLY Pawar attacker sent to Tihar Jail Hunt on for Suchitra in Burisol forests New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday sent the youth, who Joint forces find bag containing ladies’ purse, letters, medicines and newspaper photo of her slain husband Sashadhar Mahato slapped Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Thursday, to Tihar Jail on Friday. Metropolitan magis- Villagers go about trate Jasjeet Kaur remanded 27-year-old Harvinder Singh in judicial custody till December 9 after Delhi Police their chores, their produced him in the court amid tight security. —P7 Chief minister’s houses searched mother in hospital Subhrajit Chandra Sabyasachi Roy Kolkata: Gayatri Banerjee, mother of chief minister Burisol (West Midnapore): Mamata Banerjee, was Operation Burisol. It’s not really admitted to SSKM Hospital the official name. But the two around 12.30 pm on Friday. words sum up the massive The CM, who reached the manhunt that the joint security city after a two-day tour of forces carried out from dawn to Delhi, went to the hospital dusk on Friday in the nonde- straight from the airport to script, typical tribal village Spent cartridges found in see her mother. —BP tucked inside the Burisol forest, Burisol’s forests barely 12 km from Jhargram, in Wait for Tendulkar’s West Midnapore. nel. While some were search- The forces are convinced ing the adjoining fields and 100th ton continues that several Maoist guerillas, jungles with trained dogs, the Mumbai: Sachin Tendulkar including Suchitra Mahato, are rest – armed to the teeth and fell six runs short of his mile- still holed up in the village or combat-ready – surrounded stone century as India were the adjoining dense jungle. As the village. all out for 482 in their first the brief winter afternoon “The home of Kalipada innings. At the end of day’s quickly gave way to the pitch- Mahato in this village was a play, West Indies were 81 for dark night, the village den of the Maoists,” said an 2. Sachin scored 94 and was remained cordoned off. The officer. Mahato is absconding. CRPF DG K Vijay Kumar (second from left) with other officers at the site where Kishenji’s body was found on Thursday Subhrajit Chandra out to Ravi Rampaul, caught relentless search was still on. The tar-painted door of his in second slip by Darren Located less than half a kilo- small thatched-roof house in Sammy. —P16 Sabyasachi Roy bag containing a ladies’ purse, sev- Suchita and other rebels. “We sus- that there was no confusion any- metre from the jungle, where the middle of the village was eral letters and documents, a 160 GB pect that Suchitra and some other more about the body being Kishenji was killed in a fierce locked. Ramdev responsible Burisol (West Midnapore): The hard disk, microchips, earphones, rebels may be sheltering in some Kishenji’s. gun battle on Thursday, Burisol Even as the villagers went joint forces on Friday kept up their medicines and a newspaper snap- nearby village because the forest has He made a pointed reference to is a small village with 65 ahead with their daily chores, for Ramlila chaos: Cops hunt for Suchitra Mahato in the shot of Suchitra’s husband and slain remained cordoned off since rights activists’ allegations of fake households. As the morning the tension in the air was pal- New Delhi: The crackdown forests of Burisol and found near Maoist leader Sashadhar Mahato, Tuesday evening. The operation will encounters, saying they always fog slowly lifted from the pable. Eyes filled with suspi- on Ramdev at the Ramlila Thursday’s encounter site several sub-divisional police officer continue until the entire forest is sided with rebel leaders but kept neatly painted colourful tribal cion, they evaded all questions ground was a result of “entire bags, documents and an external (Jhargram) Sumit Kumar said. sanitised,” Raj said. quiet when security personnel were houses and the surrounding from the inquisitive journalists. mess” created by him and he hard drive — a sign, senior officers “The purse and Sashadhar’s photo Senior officers, including director killed. “Are you surprised? I am Not. half-harvested fields, nothing Did they really see the Maoists should take “responsibility” said, that Kishenji had other guerril- indicate that she was with Kishenji, general of police Naparajit When we die in large numbers it’s a was visibly amiss. It could have coming to or leaving Kalipada for it, Delhi Police told the las alongside during the exchange but managed to escape,” a senior Mukherjee, inspector general fair deal but if we take on the rebels been any other day, except for Mahato’s home? Supreme Court on Friday. —P6 of fire. police officer said. The forces also (Western Range) Gangeswar Singh, they allege fake encounters,” he said. the heavy presence of the joint “We have never seen anyone “A bag with more than 100 letters, recovered several nylon sacks, mats, deputy IG (Midnapore Range) “Our personnel were able to pin- forces. like that. If they came and left PM to speak to Jaya, mostly addressed to Kishenji and mattresses, empty food packets and Vineet Goyel and West Midnapore point Kishenji based on specific Right from the place where a at the dead of night, how written in Hindi and Bengali, two water bottles from the area and SP Praveen Tripathi visited the site information. But we will not share kuchcha narrow path branches would we know?” said Chandy on dam active cell phones, six SIM cards and detained Mohit Mahato and where Kishenji’s body was found. operation details,” Goyel said. The out of the asphalt road, all the Durjodhan Mahato, a small New Delhi: Prime Minister more than `85,000 in cash were Kanchan Mahato, two brothers from Later during the day, CRPF director search operations would continue, way to the village, one could farmer. His reply was typical. In Manmohan Singh on Friday found in the forest. There is clinching Burisol village, for presumed Maoist general K Vijay Kumar, who visited he added. see a long queue of security brief, none of them had seen or promised to speak to Tamil evidence that these belonged to links. the site, congratulated force person- Meanwhile, Kishenji’s body was vehicles – around 20 SUVs and heard anything about the Nadu chief minister J Kishenji,” CRPF inspector general Apart from the police and CRPF nel for what he said was a “symbolic taken to the Midnapore Medical at least 30 motorbikes. The Maoists. None of them seemed Jayalalithaa and Kerala CM (operations) Alok Raj, a key man in battalions searching the Burisol and significant strike”. College morgue from Jhargram hos- whole distance, not more than to be particularly resentful Oommen Chandy to defuse Thursday’s operation, said. forests and adjacent villages, four He also clarified after talking to pital for autopsy amid tight security. a kilometre, hummed with about the presence of the secu- tensions between the two The forces also recovered a black sniffer dogs were put on the trail of Tripathi and various other officials See Page 5 hundreds of security person- rity forces. Continued on Page 3 southern states over the Mullaperiyar dam and find an amicable solution. —P6 Kani bail CBI interrogates Senior woman TMC leads charge against FDI in retail Maderna again Rajesh Sinha in the morning. They were decision. Shouting slogans, spread unemployment. plea hearing Jodhpur: The CBI on Friday joined by the Left and the BJP the protesting members cre- CPI national secretary D grilled the sacked Rajasthan reporter held for New Delhi: The Trinamool MPs. Carrying banners, the ated bedlam in the House, Raja termed the move as minister, Mahipal Maderna, Congress (TMC), a key CPI, CPI(M) and the BJP MPs forcing chairman Hamid “most unwise”, particularly deferred in the Bhanwari Devi disap- Congress ally, joined the asked the government to Ansari to first adjourn the when Parliament was in ses- New Delhi: The wait contin- pearance case in which he is Opposition on Friday in slam- reverse its decision. House till 12 and then for the sion. He said it was “really an ued for DMK MP Kanimozhi the key suspect. Maderna J Dey murder ming the government deci- The House also witnessed day. anti-people decision and the and five others accused in the was quizzed for about four sion to allow foreign direct demonstrations by Congress The Left parties termed the government is toeing the line 2G case as their bail pleas were hours, sources said. —P6 invest (FDI) in retail. The MPs (from decision to given by the multinational adjourned by the Delhi High protests forced adjournment Telangana open the corporations”. Court till Monday. Sensex slides back to of both Houses for the fourth region) WINTER SESSION retail sector Leader of the Opposition in Justice V K Shali heard the consecutive day, ending the demanding to FDI as the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley day-long arguments on the bail 2-yr low, down 163 pts winter session’s first week statehood for Telangana. “unprecedented” and said the said, “The BJP is completely applications of Kanimozhi, Kal - Mumbai: The sensex slid without any business done. Congress MPs from the south go v ernment should have dis- opposed to FDI in the retail aignar TV chief Sharad Ku mar, back to fresh 2-year low of The TMC led the protests in ca r ried placards, demanding cussed it first in Parliament.

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