India News | Banned ULFA Leader Rupam Asom Held from Assam-Arunachal Border Area

Dibrugarh (Assam), May 24 (PTI) A top leader of the banned ULFA (I), Rupam Asom, has been arrested from a forest area near the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border, police said on Saturday.

Arms and ammunition were also recovered from his possession, the officer said.

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Rupam, who was allegedly running the proscribed outfit's extortion racket in parts of Assam, was named in the NIA charge sheet in the killing of Bordumsa Police Station officer-in-charge Bhaskar Kalita in 2018.

Rupam and his team have been hiding on the interstate border and carrying out extortion activities, the officer said.

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"Rupam Asom is the main person in the extortion activities in eastern Assam. We had information that he and his team were hiding in a jungle near the Assam-Arunachal border. Accordingly, an operation was launched on Friday night, and he was arrested," the officer said.

The police have launched a manhunt in the bordering areas to trace and apprehend other members of the banned ULFA (I) group, he added.

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