Chairman of the DMD-J Jewel Garlosa and commander-in-chief Niranjan Hojai are among the 16 persons named in the charge-sheet filed by the NIA in the court of special judge in Guwahati on Tuesday. However, the name of the politician does not appear in it. The other accused, which include government officials, are now in judicial custody.
In June, the NIA registered two cases regarding the seizure of funds by the DMD-J and took over the case from the Diyungmukh police station of the North Cachar Hill district.
During investigation, the NIA established that huge amounts of developmental funds were misused by members of the Autonomous Hill Council namely Mohet Hojai and Golon Daulagupu with the help of a few government servants and contractors. These funds were transferred to the terrorists through Kolkata with the help of hawala operators.
The probe also revealed that the funds were directed to Mizoram-based arms dealer Vanlalchhana through operators in Kolkata. Vanlalchhana further supplied arms to DMD-J on instructions given by Garlosa and Hojai.
A large number of sophisticated arms including 27 AK rifles and M-16 rifles were recovered during investigation by the NIA. The agency also arrested two more DHD-J militants -- Partha Warisa and Samir Ahmed -- who were actively associated with Garlosa.
The investigation was spread over five states Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Karnataka and West Bengal. The case also had international dimensions with the leaders of the DHD-J conducting operations from Nepal, Thailand, Singapore and Myanmar.
Hojai used his contacts in Myanmar to organise the procurement of arms for the DHD-J utilising the defalcated funds from the North Cachar Hills. He then channeled the supply of arms with the help of arms dealers from Mizoram through the Mizoram-Myanmar border.
Earlier, the NIA had chargesheeted 14 persons in a similar case in November 2009.
