Three ONGC staff ‘abducted’ in Assam, ULFA-I suspected

Three staff of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) had been allegedly kidnapped within the early hours of Wednesday from a rig web site in Lakuwa area of Assam’s Sivasagar district, the corporate mentioned. Authorities suspect that the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent) (ULFA-I) is behind the kidnapping.
The three staff have been recognized as Mohini Mohan Gogoi from Sivasagar district, and Alakesh Saikia and Retul Saikia from Jorhat district. While Mohini (32) and Alakesh (28) are each junior technicians, Retul, 38, is a junior engineering assistant. All three work within the manufacturing division and keep on the ONGC Colony in Sivasagar.
In a collection of tweets, ONGC mentioned that the workers had been taken by “unknown armed miscreants” in a car belonging to ONGC, which was later discovered deserted close to the Nimonagarh jungles, near the Assam-Nagaland border.

3 ONGC staff, 2 Junior Engineer Assistants (Production) & a Junior Technician (Production) have been kidnapped by unknown armed miscreants within the early hours of 21 April 2021. The abduction came about on a rig web site of ONGC in Lakwa area of Sivasagar District.
— ONGC (@ONGC_) April 21, 2021

An ONGC spokesperson mentioned that the incident came about at round 1 am, Wednesday. He mentioned, “About 4-5 armed abductors used one of our ambulances — which was stationed at the site – to kidnap them.” He added that it occurred on the Romonia rig situated adjoining to Lakuwa tea property, underneath Simalguri police station.

According to Sivasagar SP Amitava Sinha, the style through which the kidnapping was carried out makes it seem to be it was the “handiwork of the ULFA-I.” “It has to be some militant group. We are suspecting ULFA because that is the only militant group active in this area,” mentioned SP Sinha.
“We found out about it this morning on TV news,” mentioned Anurag Saikia, Alakesh’s brother, “My mother is very worried and our only request as a family is that three of them are released as soon as possible. My brother is very young. He just joined ONGC in August last year…what will they achieve from kidnapping him? We are only simple people.”
Meenu Gogoi, Mohini’s mom mentioned that she final spoke to her on Tuesday afternoon. “There was a wedding today and he was supposed to come home,” she mentioned, “But in the morning my daughter-in-law called me to say he had been kidnapped. What can I say? How will a mother feel when her only son is taken away? I haven’t eaten all day. I request them to release him at the earliest.”
SP Sinha mentioned that they’ve requested for the safety companies in Nagaland to be on alert. “Nagaland is very close to the actual location of the incident — the vehicle was found abandoned near the Nagaland border. So, police in Nagaland’s Mon district has also been activated,” he added.

In December final yr, ULFA(I) and Myanmar-faction of NSCN (Ok) had kidnapped two staff of the Quippo Oil and Gas Infrastructure Limited from Kumchaikha hydrocarbon drilling web site close to Innao in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh. They had been launched earlier this month.
ONGC is India’s greatest oil and gasoline exploration and manufacturing firm. The firm has been exploring and producing oil and gasoline in Upper Assam because the early Nineteen Sixties.