Ranjan Daimary alias D R Nabla, the chairman of the anti-talks faction of the proscribed National Democratic Front of Bodoland and main accused in the serial blasts that rocked Assam on October 30, 2008, has been arrested.
Daimary was arrested from his Bangladesh hideout and handed over to Assam Police at the Border Security Force post at Dawki along the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya in the wee hours of Saturday.
According to security sources, the dreaded insurgent leader against whom Interpol had issued red-corner notice long ago, was brought to Guwahati by a team of the Assam police led by an Inspector General rank official.
The arrest will break the backbone of the NDFB's anti-talks faction that has been engaged in mass killings in Assam, triggering mindless blasts at public places.
Over 100 cases of manslaughter are pending against Daimary, who was named the prime accused and mastermind of 2008 serial blasts in Guwahati, Barpeta Road, Kokrakhar and Bongaigaon areas that left over 90 dead and over 400 injured.
Daimari's arrest could be termed as another indication of improved ties between New Delhi and Dhaka after Sheikh Hasina came to power in Bangladesh. The incumbent Bangladesh regime has been extending tremendous cooperation to India in evicting N-E militant leaders from that country.
At least four senior United Liberation Front of Assam leaders, including its chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, were arrested in Bangladesh and handed over to Assam police in December last year.
The ULFA leaders are now lodged Guwahati jail.
Though there was no official confirmation forthcoming from Assam Police about the arrest of NDFB chairman Daimary, a red alert has been sounded in all the four districts of Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) areas in Assam where the NDFB is active. Daimary's NDFB faction has been demanding sovereignty for Bodo tribe in Assam.
