Lok Sabha Election: Kolkata Police have arrested a person for making a recce outside Abhishek Banerjee's house. Kolkata Police has arrested the person from the Mahim area of Mumbai. The person has been identified as Rajaram Rege. Kolkata Police said that Rajaram is a terrorist and he also has connections with Mumbai attacks handler David Headley.
Not only this, Kolkata Police claims that Rajaram was planning a Mumbai-like 26/11 attack in Kolkata. Kolkata Police arrested Rajaram at a time when Mamata Banerjee had expressed fear of murder of herself and her nephew a day earlier.
Rajaram had met Headley before the Mumbai attacks.
Kolkata Police's Additional CP 1 Muralidhar Sharma told in a press conference that Kolkata Police has arrested Rajaram Rege from Mumbai in connection with the recce of TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee's house. He said that Rajaram had met David Headley before the 2011 Mumbai attacks.
Police say that terrorist Headley, In a Chicago court, stated a prosecution witness in the trial for the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. I had been told that he had gone to Shiv Sena Bhawan in Dadar in central Mumbai and sang Raja Ram Rege. I had met from.
Additional CP said that Rajaram was seen in Kolkata. He had taken a hotel in South Kolkata. Not only this, he also had the numbers of Abhishek Banerjee and his PA. Kolkata Police says that an attack like 26/11 was being planned. The accused had also tried to recce the house of Abhishek Banerjee. Initial investigation has revealed that Rajaram had met some other people in Kolkata. Police said that an investigation is going on in the matter.