Three Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) ultras, allegedly involved in December 26 cycle bomb blast near Jalpaiguri town, have been arrested from Jalpaiguri and Malda districts, police said today.
Police arrested two KLO ultras Joymati Roy and Chotan Roy from Alipurduar in Jalpaiguri district, while the third Choton Roy, a hardcore KLO militant was arrested from Mehendipara area in West Bengal's Malda district.
According to the police they were allegedly involved in the cycle bomb blast in Jalpaiguri district which six persons were killed.
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Both Joymati and Chotan were produced before a court in Jalpaiguri today which remanded them to 10-days police custody.
In Malda district acting on a tip off, the police nabbed Choton Roy, a hardcore KLO ultra from a house where he had taken shelter at the Mehendipara area last night.
Roy was involved in several crimes and during interrogation has confessed that he was involved in the firing on a bus on December 27 last year, sources said.
Roy is also very close the KLO Commander Malkhan Singh, they added.
