New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Friday dismissed allegations that an arms drop in West Bengal’s Purulia district in 1995 was an operation carried out by the Indian government and a foreign spy agency to destabilise the Marxist government in that state.
CBI spokesperson Dharini Mishra said: ‘The CBI has clinching evidence against Kim Davy and has details that he carried out the Purulia arms drop. His seized laptop has documents related to his crime.’
Mishra said the contents of the seized laptop showed that Davy had planned the operation in great detail.
Davy, one of the accused in the case, had in an interview to a television channel
alleged that the drop was planned by the Indian government in collaboration with British intelligence to destabilise the Communist government in West Bengal.
Davy had alleged that the objective ‘was to destabilise the government of West Bengal so that president’s rule could be declared and the CPI-M government disposed’, a release from the channel said.
Mishra said there is no evidence that any government agency or Indian politician helped Davy to flee India.
‘The CBI has been able to establish in an Indian court and to the Danish Government that Davy’s crime is tantamount to act of terror,’ Mishra told IANS.
The CBI official said that Davy is trying to complicate the process of his extradition from Denmark.
On the night of Dec 17, 1995, a large consignment of arms, including several hundred AK-47 rifles, anti-tank weapons and ammunition were dropped from a Latvian aircraft in Purulia.
‘Peter Bleach (the prime accused), who was released after getting a presidential pardon, said that the entire operation was planned and plotted by the (P.V.) Narasimha Rao government. And my understanding is, in fact, the Indian government actually supported the whole thing,’ the channel’s release quoted Davy as saying.
Five Lativian citizens and British arms dealer Peter Bleach were arrested, but Davy managed to escape.
Davy, who was located in Denmark, could not be extradited to India as a Danish court said he was unlikely to get a fair trial and would possibly face a threat to his life.
The Danish government wanted India to ensure that Davy would not be given the death sentence if extradited, which was agreed to.
