Ulfa chairman granted bail

Dec 31, 2010 - MANOJ ANAND |

GUWAHATI

The chairman of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom, Arbinda Rajkhowa, was granted bail by a Tada court in Assam on Thursday.
The court granted Mr Rajkhowa bail in six Tada cases which were the last hurdle for his formal release from Guwahati Central Jail.

Bail was granted after the Assam government submitted an affidavit clarifying that they have no objection to releasing him from jail.
After his release, Mr Rajkhowa will go to his hometown Lakhuwa, in upper Assam, where civil society groups in and around his native village have been motivated to accord a grand welcome to the Ulfa chairman. He will be visiting his village 30 years after he went underground on the formation of Ulfa on April 7, 1979. Mr Rajkhowa had been in Guwahati Central Jail since his arrest after being handed over by Bangladesh near the international border in Meghalaya in November 2009.
Ulfa general secretary Chitraban Hazarika and foreign secretary Sasha Chaudhury, who were caught and handed over to India by Bangladesh, are also expected to get bail soon. Mr Rajkhowa is the sixth top Ulfa leader to be released on bail, after Ulfa vice-chairman Pradip Gogoi, deputy commander-in-chief Raju Baruah, cultural secretary Pranati Deka, publicity secretary Mithinga Daimary and political ideologue Bhimakanta Burgohain, to facilitate peace talks proposed by the Assam government to resolve the decades-old conflict.

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