Former Assam MLA, two others arrested for ‘conspiring’ to drift terror group

By Express News Service

GUWAHATI: Former Assam MLA together with two others had been arrested by the police on Saturday for allegedly making an attempt to drift a militant organisation.

The police had performed a search on the residence of the previous MLA, Hitesh Basumatary, in Kokrajhar district and recovered one AK 47 and one M16 rifle together with 100 dwell cartridges.

Kokrajhar Superintendent of Police Pushpraj Singh instructed TNIE that three individuals had been in custody and their interrogation was on.

“They were conspiring to form a new terror organisation. Based on that, they were arrested,” the SP stated.

“We produced them in a local court and it sent them to five-day police remand,” Singh stated. 

Asked in the event that they had been making an attempt to drift the group in Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), he stated the police would reveal the whole lot after the interrogation of the trio was over.

Basumatary had gained the 2011 Assembly elections from the Chapaguri constituency as a candidate of the Bodoland People’s Front. He additionally served as an Executive Member of the Bodoland Territorial Council.

Militancy is down within the BTR after the signing of a tripartite accord among the many Centre, Assam authorities and Bodo representatives, together with all factions of the rebel group National Democratic Front of Bodoland, in January 2020.

GUWAHATI: Former Assam MLA together with two others had been arrested by the police on Saturday for allegedly making an attempt to drift a militant organisation.

The police had performed a search on the residence of the previous MLA, Hitesh Basumatary, in Kokrajhar district and recovered one AK 47 and one M16 rifle together with 100 dwell cartridges.

Kokrajhar Superintendent of Police Pushpraj Singh instructed TNIE that three individuals had been in custody and their interrogation was on.

“They were conspiring to form a new terror organisation. Based on that, they were arrested,” the SP stated.

“We produced them in a local court and it sent them to five-day police remand,” Singh stated. 

Asked in the event that they had been making an attempt to drift the group in Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), he stated the police would reveal the whole lot after the interrogation of the trio was over.

Basumatary had gained the 2011 Assembly elections from the Chapaguri constituency as a candidate of the Bodoland People’s Front. He additionally served as an Executive Member of the Bodoland Territorial Council.

Militancy is down within the BTR after the signing of a tripartite accord among the many Centre, Assam authorities and Bodo representatives, together with all factions of the rebel group National Democratic Front of Bodoland, in January 2020.