The chargesheet describes Deepak as “introvert, intelligent, calm, and of secretive nature”. “He is simple in outlook and knows etiquette but at the same time, he is firm, cunning and shrewd. He has voluntarily abdicated all material happiness of life, family, food habits, and all other allurements and amenities of personal life and dedicated himself to the expansion and development of his party and ideology,” states the chargesheet.

It also says the Maoist did not disclose any information relating to his party that could damage it. “He is the key man and one of the pioneers in the formation of CPI(ML) PW and subsequently CPI (Maoist) in West Bengal,” the investigators have said in the chargesheet.

The CID has also booked Deepak under UAPA provisions. The case will come up for hearing on June 21 at the sessions court, Alipore.

Deepak was arrested by a CID team on March 2, 2010 from a bus stand at Sarsuna in Behala. He was said to be carrying various Bengali magazines, CPI(Maoist) leaflets and an open letter to Mamata Banerjee against introduction of BT brinjal. The CID has also seized a Sony tape recorder and two audio cassettes from him.

According to the chargesheet filed by CID DSP Ranjit Chakraborty, Deepak said during interrogation that he came to West Bengal in 1995 along with Koteswar Rao alias Kishenji from Andhra Pradesh and one Arun whose full identity he has not yet disclosed.

The chargesheet also said that Deepak, using a pseudo name called “Gauranga”, had organised movement in Nandigram to oppose the land acquisition by the state government in 2007. The CID claimed to have recorded statement of three persons from Nandigram, who said Gauranga provided arms training to the locals and collected money to procure firearms.