Jalpaiguri Railway Station in Siliguri, North Bengal. By late 2006, Sanyal had become a prominent figure in the opposition to land acquisition in Singur. On 8 December, he was arrested and detained along with three other Naxalite leaders after the police stopped and charged a demonstration. Death On 23 March 2010, he was found hanging at his residence at Seftullajote village, 25 km from Siliguri (West Bengal), where the Naxal movement had begun under his leadership. Sanyal was suffering from old-age related cardio-pulmonary ailments. At the time of his death, he was the General Secretary of the new CPI(ML), formed by a merger of several splinter groups of the original party. Popular culture Sanyal, as well as the Naxalite movement, was referenced in Jhumpa Lahiri's 2013 novel The Lowland. References External links CPI(ML) website 1932 births 2010 deaths Indian communists Suicides by hanging in India Indian prisoners and detainees Prisoners and detainees of India Naxalite–Maoist insurgency University of Calcutta alumni Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) politicians