New Delhi, Aug 16: The CBI today sent a team to West Bengal to question Santosh Subba, arrested by Darjeeling police earlier this week on the charge of being involved in heinous crimes including supply of arms and ammunition to the hijackers of IC-814 plane of Indian Airlines in 1999 from Kathmandu to Kandhahar. CBI sources told reporters that the team had been sent after the state police had informed the agency about his arrest and alleged role in the 1999 hijacking.
The sources said during investigation into the hijacking episode, the CBI team had come across his name but his role was confined to supply of one grenade to dilip kumar bhujel, one of the eight accused chargesheeted by the agency in this case.
The CBI sources said Subba was believed to be running an illegal racket of arms and ammunition supply to gangs and possibility to militant groups. The state police had claimed that Santosh alias Gore was also wanted in connection with the attempt on the life of Gorkha National Liberation Front president Subhas Ghising in February last year.
He is the son of Gorkha Liberation Organisation chief Chattre Subba, now in jail on the charge of attempt on the life of Ghising. Bureau Report