New Delhi: Over 15 years after the sensational Purulia arms drop case, two of the accused in the case have claimed that it was done with the blessing of the government of India of the day.
Peter Bleach, a British citizen who was sentenced to life for supplying the large cache of arms and later released in 2004 through presidential pardon, and Kim Davy alias Neels Christian Neilsen, revealed the arms were meant to destabilise the Marxist government in West Bengal.
A Latvian aircraft dropped a large consignment of arms, including several hundred AK-47 rifles and more than one million rounds of ammunition over a large area in Jhalda, Ghatanga, Belamu and Marumu villages of Purulia district on the night of December 17, 1995.
Several days later when the same aircraft entered Indian airspace, it was intercepted and forced to land in Mumbai by the Indian Air Force MiG-21 fighter planes.
Vanishing act
However, Davy mysteriously disappeared from Mumbai airport.
Both Davy and Bleach claim that the federal authorities were not only aware of the route, time and place of the arms drop but also facilitated it by switching off the radar.
Peter Bleach, a British citizen who was sentenced to life for supplying the large cache of arms and later released in 2004 through presidential pardon, and Kim Davy alias Neels Christian Neilsen, revealed the arms were meant to destabilise the Marxist government in West Bengal.
A Latvian aircraft dropped a large consignment of arms, including several hundred AK-47 rifles and more than one million rounds of ammunition over a large area in Jhalda, Ghatanga, Belamu and Marumu villages of Purulia district on the night of December 17, 1995.
Several days later when the same aircraft entered Indian airspace, it was intercepted and forced to land in Mumbai by the Indian Air Force MiG-21 fighter planes.
Vanishing act
However, Davy mysteriously disappeared from Mumbai airport.
Both Davy and Bleach claim that the federal authorities were not only aware of the route, time and place of the arms drop but also facilitated it by switching off the radar.