New Delhi, Oct 27: The Delhi High Court has issued a notice to the CBI on a petition alleging that the Union home ministry and the governments of Bihar and West Bengal did not take proper action to stop the 1995 armsdrop in Purulia despite having prior information of the same. While issuing the notice, Justice O P Dwivedi asked CBI to file its reply by January 15 next alongwith an action taken report on the information passed on by petitioner Deepak Kumar Prahladaka to the agency on September 9 last year. Prahladaka, a Kolkata-based legal activist, submitted that a copy of purported letter written by the then Joint Secretary (home) Shashi Prakash to the then Chief Secretary of West Bengal N Krishnakurthy on December 12, 1995, only five days before huge consignments of arms were dropped, informing the latter about possible armsdrop meant for an insurgent group opposed to the CPM-led government in West Bengal. He sought inquiry into the matter and prosecution of the "guilty public servants".
When the CBI filed its chargesheet in the case on March 20, 1996, "there was no whisper in the chargesheet that the Indian authorities had prior information of designs of commission of offences by dropping weapons in Indian territory," Prahaladka alleged. Bureau Report