Kolkata, Sept. 18 -- The last central committee member of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), Asim Mandal, was arrested from Polerhat in the eastern fringes of Kolkata on Thursday afternoon, police said. Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari praised the West Bengal Police's sharp technical intelligence and exceptional operational competence in arresting 64-year-old Mandal alias Akash, who had been evading law enforcement for over 15 years across inter-state forest belts. "Mandal alias Akash, a senior CPI-Maoist leader, was arrested from Polerhat. He has around 17 cases pending against him in Jharkhand and about a dozen cases pending in West Bengal. He carried a reward of Rs.1 crore in Jharkhand. A team of officials from Jharkhand Police...