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Patna, Sep 16 (IANS) Two top jailed Maoist leaders in Bihar have offered to donate their bodies for medical research to a hospital in West Bengal, prison officials said Friday.
The two are Purnendu Sekhar Mukharjee and Varanasi Subramaniam, both central committee members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist, lodged at the special central jail in Bhagalpur district, about 200 km from here.
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Superintendent of Jail Jitendra Kumar told IANS over telephone that Mukharjee and Subramaniam, in separate letters, offered to donate their bodies for medical research.
A top police official said it was the first time such an offer has come from Maoist leaders lodged in a state prison.
Kumar said the Maoist leaders have, however, made it clear they want to donate to an institute in West Bengal. Besides, they also want to donate their eyes to an eye hospital separately.
"The eyes should be donated to anybody who requires them the most. But I shall be happy if my eyes are donated to a person belonging to the deprived section of society," Subramaniam said in his letter written Aug 23.
Mukharjee wrote his letter Sep 13.
The jail superintendent has sent the copies of both letters to the inspector general of police (prisons) office in Patna.
Subramaniam hails from Andhra Pradesh's Prakasam district and Mukharjee is from West Bengal's North 24-Parganas district. They are lodged in a special cell.
Subramaniam, 58, was arrested from Katihar district April 30 along with two CPI-Maoist central committee members Mukharjee, 68, and Vijay Kumar Arya by a joint police team of the Special Task Force and the district police. The Andhra Pradesh government had announced a cash reward of Rs.12 lakh on Subramaniam's head.
They were wanted in connection with armed uprisings and other cases in different states.
Hundreds of Maoists, including their top leaders, are lodged in Bihar's 54 jails. Some of them are from Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal and even neighbouring Nepal.
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