MIDNAPORE: West Bengal police arrested four people, including two students, from Jangalmahal’s Goaltore for alleged links to Maoist outfits on Tuesday after charging them with sedition, waging war against government, unlawful assembly and criminal conspiracy.

The four have been remanded to police custody for nine days. They were identified as writer Sabyasachi Goswami (50), factory worker Sanjib Majumdar (25) alias Asim, Burdwan Medical College third-year student Arkodwip Goswami (23) alias Bijoy, and Sanskrit College first-year MA (Bengali) student Tipu Sultan (23) alias Swapan.

Police registered a suo motu case against the suspects after they visited Kanjimakli village on Tuesday to meet former local Maoists. In his complaint, an SI of Goaltore police station said they were tipped off that the meeting would discuss ways to regroup Maoist activists to form an organisation of the ultras. Cops recovered leaflets and booklets of Maoist literature from the gathering.

