Top ULFA leaders surrender to BSF

Dawki (Meghalaya), Nov 6 (PTI) Two top United Liberation
Front of Assam (ULFA) leaders, who have fled Bangladesh
following a crackdown by security forces there, have
surrendered before the Border Security Force (BSF) in Tripura
and will be handed over to Assam Police soon, a top BSF
official said on Friday.
Self-styled ULFA Foreign Secretary Sashadhar Choudhury
and Finance Secretary Chitraban Hazarika surrendered at
Gokulnagar along the Indo-Bangla border in Tripura on the
intervening night of November 4 and 5.
The two were reportedly trying to enter India when they
were spotted by the BSF troops and asked to surrender, the
official said.
Intelligence agencies said Bangladesh security agencies
have raided some hideouts of leaders of the outfit this week,
prompting the cadres to flee.
Internal clashes among ULFA cadres is also said to have
forced some ultras to flee.
During interrogation, the ULFA leaders confessed they
have fled the neighbouring country as they were facing threat
to life from their colleagues, the official said.
However, the banned ULFA on Wednesday claimed that
Choudhury and Hazarika have been taken away by unidentified
persons in civil clothes from a house at Sector 3 of posh
Uttara locality in Dhaka, where one of them was living with
his family.
The BSF official said the duo will be handed over to
Assam Police soon as it approached for custody since several
cases were pending in the state against them. (More) PTI RTJ
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