ULFA leaders in court, Paresh for talks on 'sovereignty'

Guwahati, Dec 5 (PTI) United Liberation Front of Assam
(ULFA)'s top leaders were Saturday brought before the legal
process as its elusive 'commander-in-chief' Paresh Baruah
fine-tuned his reservations on dialogue saying he was ready
for talks provided 'sovereignty' for India's northeastern
state of Assam was on the agenda.

Huge crowds gathered before the Chief Judicial
Magistrate's court to get their first glimpse of the militant
leaders Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and 'deputy commander-in-
chief' Raju Baruah and Raja Borah, who were remanded to 12
days' police custody.
Rajkhowa and Baruah claimed that they had not
surrendered would never do it as they were taken back to the
police van by the personnel of the Special Operations Unit of
the Assam Police.
Their lawyer Bijon Mahajan said the three have been
booked under some old case registered against them years ago
and the custody was granted against the police demand for 14
days.
Paresh Baruah, who is believed to be in Myanmar and who
had Friday asked Rajkhowa not to fall into the government's
trap of dialogue, Saturday denied there was any split in the
organisation he had "full confidence" in Rajkhowa.
"We are ready for dialogue provided sovereignty for
Assam is discussed," he said in an email to the media from an
undisclosed location. (More) PTI ACB
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