NIA Files Chargesheet Against ULFA Chairman Paresh Baruah, 2 Others in 2024 I-Day IED Planting Case

Those charge sheeted, include Paresh Baruah, Chairman & SS Commander-in-Chief of proscribed militant outfit, Abhijit Gogoi and Jahnu Boruah.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a charge sheet against three ULFA (I) leaders in connection with a conspiracy to carry out multiple IED blasts in Assam on Independence Day in 2024.

Those charge sheeted, include Paresh Baruah, Chairman and SS Commander-in-Chief of the proscribed militant outfit, Abhijit Gogoi and Jahnu Boruah.

The three have been charged under various sections of BNS, UA (P) Act and The Explosives Substance Act. The trio were found linked with the IED planted by the terror outfit at Dispur Last Gate, Guwahati, Assam, as part of the ULFA (I) conspiracy to trigger multiple IED blasts across Assam, including at Dispur Last Gate, to disrupt the I-Day celebrations last year.

NIA, which took over the case in September 2024, found during investigation that the IEDs had been planted to cause like death/injuries to persons and/or loss/damage/destruction to property, with the intent to threaten the unity, integrity, security and sovereignty of India, and to strike terror among the people of the country.

The case (RC-03/2024/NIA-GUW), which was handed over to the NIA in September 2024, remains under investigation.

The 2024 Independence Day celebrations in Assam was clouded by serious security concerns after ULFA-I sent emails to several media outlets in the state, claiming to have planted bombs in 24 different locations. The emails provided the precise locations of 19 IEDs, while details for the remaining five were not disclosed. As a precaution, security forces and police personnel carried out intensive search for explosives. Bomb disposal squads were also rushed to various sites to detect and neutralise the threats.

ULFA-I claimed in its emails that the devices would not detonate due to a “technical fault” and even appealed to the public to help locate them. However, security agencies took no chances and launched an intensive operation across the state. The Assam Police recovered 11 IEDs from multiple locations.

Among them, four explosive devices were found in high-risk areas of Guwahati, including Pan Bazar, Dispur, Gandhi Mandap, and Satgaon. None of the IEDs detonated, and no injuries were reported. On September 21, 2024, the Assam Police and NIA jointly arrested 15 individuals, including three women, from various locations across the state in connection with the planting of IEDs. Later in December, the agency arrested a key ULFA-I operative connected to the same case.

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