Guwahati: In a joint operation carried out by the Khonsa Battalion of Assam Rifles and the Arunachal Pradesh Police resulted in the arrest of two active members of the United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I) group.
The operation took place in a village named Horu Chinghan, and the arrested ULFA (I) cadres were identified as Self-Styled 2nd Lieutenant Ranju Asom and Self-Styled Private Orindom Asom. Both of them hailed from Assam.
The ULFA (I) group has been trying to strengthen its presence in the upper Assam region, which makes the capture of these cadres an essential achievement for the security forces. Over the past few months, there have been several arrests and surrenders of ULFA (I) cadres in the upper Assam and TCL regions of Arunachal Pradesh, which have resulted in weakening the group’s activities and hierarchy.
Earlier in February 2023, a senior member of ULFA (I), Bubul Chandra Baruah, surrendered to the police in Guwahati. Baruah, a self-styled major of the outfit, had entered India from the group’s camp in Myanmar in February 2023. He surrendered in front of additional DGP (special branch) Hiren Chandra Nath.
Baruah had joined ULFA (I) in 1997 and received arms and medical training in Myanmar. He was involved in imparting arms and medical training to the group’s cadres since 1998. Between 2011 and 2019, Baruah provided arms training to around 700 cadres and medical training to 150 cadres of the outfit as the chief of arms and medical camp at ULFA-I camp in Taga, Myanmar.
