64 members of 4 militant groups surrender before Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal
64 members of 4 militant groups surrender before Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal
Sixty-four militants laid down weapons before Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Monday.
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UPDATED: December 22, 2020 00:11 IST
Militants of terror outfits handed over their weapons to Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal in Guwahati on Monday. (Photo: PTI)
A total of 64 insurgents of four different militant groups laid down their arms and returned to the mainstream in Assam on Monday.
The 64 insurgents of United Liberation Front of Asom Independent (ULFA-I), People s Democratic Council of Karbi Longri (PDCK), Dimasa National Liberation Front (DNLA), and United People s Revolutionary Front (UPRF) surrendered their arms before Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Assam DGP Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta and other senior officials of the state government, the police and the Army in an arms laying ceremonial
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By Jayanta Kalita 18 December 2020
Last month, the dramatic surrender of Manoj Rabha, alias Drishti Rajkhowa, one of the most dreaded militants from India’s Northeast, made headlines throughout the region.
Rajkhowa was the deputy commander-in-chief of the United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent), or ULFA (I), an organization that is struggling with a depletion of its strength following a split in 2011.
Trained in Myanmar and the Afghanistan-Pakistan (Af-Pak) border region, Rajkhowa was involved in a number of sensational operations. His surrender came as a big relief for Indian security agencies as well as Assam police who had been trying to track him down for several years.