NIA Arrests Key ULFA-I Operative For Planting Explosive Devices In Guwahati During I-Day Celebrations
First Published: 17th December, 2024 10:29 IST
Several incriminating materials, including digital devices, were seized during the searches and are currently under examination.
The National Investigation Agency on Monday arrested a key operative of the banned terrorist outfit ULFA (I) for planting improvised explosive devices in Guwahati, Assam during this year’s Independence Day celebrations.
As per official statement, NIA teams, with the active support of Assam Police, carried out searches at the house of Jahnu Baruah alias Arnab Axom in Dibrugarh in an intelligence-based operation in the early hours of this morning. Several incriminating materials, including digital devices, were seized during the searches and are currently under examination.
“The accused, during preliminary investigation, confessed to his involvement in planting four of the 11 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) that were recovered by the state police during the I-Day celebrations,” said the statement issued by the NIA.
“The IEDs had been planted as part of the military protest and I-Day boycott call by Paresh Baruah, SS C-in-C of ULFA(I), in a video, which had warned of dire consequences for anyone disobeying the instructions. Consequently, Jahnu Barua was arrested after following the due procedure,” it said.
Jahnu Baruah, who planted the four IEDs at Pan Bazar, Dispur, Gandhi Mandap and Satgaon in Guwahati, had been under surveillance and monitoring for the past several weeks.
He was one of the several suspects identified by NIA, based on technical and human intelligence, as being involved in the collection and transportation of the IEDs that were planted to trigger large-scale explosions in Assam on the occasion of I-Day, causing loss to property and life and inciting terror in the state.
NIA had taken over the investigation of the case from the state police on September 17 and found that the IEDs were planted at the behest of Aishang Asom, alias Abhijit Gogoi and other top leaders of ULFA (I).
Investigations in the case are continuing.
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