Purulia arms drop
On the night of 17th december 1995, an Latvian aircraft(Antonov An-26) dropped a large consignment of arms using parachutes (including thousands of AK-47s and millions of rounds of ammunition) in Purulia district in WB. The aircraft that had taken off from Varanasi, then proceeded to Kolkata before landing in Phuket, Thailand. Five days later, on Dec 22 1995, it breached Indian airspace again on its way to Karachi It was ordered to land in Mumbai where 6 men including a Peter Bleach were arrested and one, a Kim Davy, escaped. Fuel for controversy: 1) Two months prior to the incident, the British secret service tipped the Indian government (then under Mr. PV . Narasimha Rao ) of such an operation for which the latter's reaction was to pass on the information to the WB government through a registered post (the slowest means of communication then). Inaction or conspiracy? Was the congress trying to destablise the communist government which had been in power in WB for ov...