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Tomba, who was arrested from Matigara in Darjeeling district on Sunday along with his three women commanders, used to make extortion calls to businessmen in Manipur through a satellite phone. His recruits in Imphal used to collect the money for him, said police.
A CID team from Kolkata interrogated Tomba on Wednesday. “Our team is present in Darjeeling. We are taking up the case soon,” said Neeraj Pandey, IG, CID, West Bengal. During a raid at Tomba’s Kurseong residence, the police recovered a Malayasian cellphone and three SIMs of Nepal.
Tomba used to be surrounded by young women, said police. The two Manipuri women — S Nemcha and N Rama Chamu — arrested used to accompany him to all foreign trips and are trained in using arms.
The third, 20-year-old Saraswati Rai used to make all necessary arrangements for Tomba and provided him with all kinds of local assistance. Rai is a final year student of Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA) from a Siliguri college. “Both Nemcha (18) and Chamu (23), who hail from Manipur, are college dropouts,” said Radheshyam Singh, SP of East Imphal. “They were his closest female companions,” said D P Singh, SP, Darjeeling.
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