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GUWAHATI, Sept 8: Assam Police arrested a linkman from the United Liberation Front of Asom—Independent (ULFA-I), a proscribed terrorist group, for allegedly planting explosives on Independence Day in several parts of the state, officials said on Sunday.
As per the officials, the linkman was identified as Manab Kalita and was arrested in Jorhat district.
During investigation, Kalita admitted that he was an active cadre of ULFA-I and that, on Independence Day, he took a proactive part in putting bombs in multiple locations in Guwahati.
“The ULFA-I linkman was active in the region for the last several days. He demanded extortion money from the owner of a tea garden in the upper Assam area. However, initially, the authority of the tea garden thought he was demanding money to befool people on the name of ULFA-I but actually he is an active cadre of the outlawed group,” a senior official from Assam Police said while speaking to news agency IANS.
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It has been learned that Kalita has disclosed a great deal about ULFA-I’s plan to sabotage Assam’s Independence Day celebrations during her police interrogation. For security considerations, the police have not yet made an official statement on the matter.
To recall that on August 15, several places of Assam received bomb threats after the United Liberation Front of Asom—Independent (ULFA-I), a proscribed militant group, claimed to have planted exploded devices in 25 different locations throughout the state.
Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sivasagar, Nagaon, and a few locations in Guwahati are among the locations. It has been discovered that ULFA-I dropped bombs in Guwahati city in at least eight locations.
The outlawed group in a statement said that due to some technical errors, the bombs were not blasted. According to a statement by ULFA-I, they intended to protest violently by detonating the explosives during Independence Day festivities.
But between 6 am and 12 noon, “technical errors” prevented the bombs from detonating as intended.
A list of the targeted areas and pictures of certain bomb sites, including one close to the state secretariat in Dispur in Guwahati, were also published by ULFA-I.
