Court sends banned outfit's chief to judicial custody

A Delhi court today remanded Khoirom Ranjit, the chief of Manipur's proscribed Kangleipak Communist Party, to judicial custody till January 31 for allegedly planning to carry out terror strikes here.
Additional Sessions Judge Reetesh Singh also sent Ranjit's associate P Prem Kumar to judicial custody after the Delhi Police said the two accused were not required for custodial interrogation.
The two accused were produced before the court on expiry of their police custody.
The police had earlier claimed that the accused had shifted the extremist outfit's base to Delhi and planning to carry out terror strikes here.
According to the police, Kumar was arrested in Imphal on January 12, while Ranjit and party cadre Inugbam Sanatombi Devi were arrested from East Delhi's Mayur Vihar area on the same day. Devi is currently in judicial custody.

The Special Cell of Delhi Police had claimed in the court that two hand grenades, a laptop, eight mobile phones, four pen drives and 49 sim cards were recovered from their possession.
It had said all the three accused were members of the banned outfit and Ranjit was its commander-in-chief. It had contended that the accused were required in several cases in Manipur.