Kalimpong, July 31: Police today detained Santosh Subba, the 35-year-old son of jailed Gorkha leader Chhatrey Subba, in connection with the kerosene stove blast at Motor Stand here on July 26.
“We have detained one person and are examining him,” said D.P. Singh, the superintendent of police, Darjeeling. Asked if the detained person was Santosh, he replied in the affirmative.
The blast had partially damaged a bus parked at the stand and shattered the ventilator of a ticket counter.
Sources said the police were examining the details of the calls made from Santosh’s cellphone on July 28, the day a person identifying himself as M. Thehgeem called up a vernacular newspaper’s office here and said his Underground Liberation Association had carried out the blast to protest the signing of the GTA agreement.
The police are also understood to have recovered a copy of the newspaper which had carried the ULA’s claim from Santosh’s car.
Sources said Santosh appeared very frustrated over the 10-year-long detention of his father in a Jalpaiguri jail.
The 62-year-old senior Subba was arrested for allegedly masterminding the attack on GNLF president Subash Ghisingh near Kurseong on February 10 in 2001.
~RAJEEV RAVIDAS(TT)
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