Guwahati, May 1: The Bangladeshi authorities handed over Ranjan Daimary, alias D.R. Nabla, the chairman of the proscribed National Demo-cratic Front of Bodoland and main accused in the Assam serial blasts of October 30, 2008, to the BSF at the Daowki border area in Meghalaya on Saturday.

Daimary was kept in confinement the past few days in Bangladesh and evicted after intense negotiations between New Delhi and Dhaka. Dhaka was initially reluctant to hand him over.
The Indian government has sought the eviction of at least seven top Northeast rebel leaders (including Daimary) who are carrying out subversive activities from Sherpur and other Bangladeshi districts.
Disclosing that Daimary was operating a full “battalion” of armed NDFB rebels from Sherpur district (Ban-gladesh), security sources, however, refused to provide further details on his arrest and subsequent eviction.
Security sources pointed out that Delhi is mounting pressure on Dhaka to evict all the Indian separatist leaders operating out of that country and in this regard substantial evidence has been handed over to Dhaka.
Daimary’s eviction is a major blow to the NDFB’s anti-talks faction, which has been engaged in mass killings in Assam.
Assam police sources claimed Indian military intelligence officials gave specific information about Daimary’s son, a student at a Dhaka school.
It is through him and subsequent intercepts of calls between Daimary and his wife that the NDFB chief was arrested in Bangladesh. It was not known whether Daimary’s wife and son were also evicted on Saturday.
Daimary was brought to Guwahati on Saturday afternoon and is being interrogated by different security agencies.
Sources indicated he would be produced before a court in a day or two.

Manoj Anand