Five alleged Bodo rebels held in Chittagong Hill Tracts  Aug 18 : The five Indian citizens, who were arrested on the evening of Monday from Noymail area under Dighinala upazila, were sent to Khagrachhari district jail today. The arrested people are suspected to be members of Indian separatist group National Democratic Front of Bodoland Assam. Khagrachhari Court Police sources said, the five Indians who illegally entered Bangladesh were produced in the court of additional chief judicial magistrate Mohammad Saifuzzaman Hira, who sent them to Khagrachhari district jail. The court fixed September 6 for the next hearing of the case, sources confirmed.. It may be mentioned that members of the Army and police personnel in a joint drive yesterday detained five Indian nationals Oadhish Narzari, 35, Pabitra Gowari, 25, Dhiren Khakori, 25, Jonatha Basumothari, 35, and Pradep Nargery, 30 from Noymail area under Dighinala upazila in Khagrachhari, police sources said. They said Capt Al Mamun Suman of Dighinala Army Zone and sub-inspector Rafiqullah of Dighinala Police Station arrested them for illegal entry to the country. Quoting the arrestees, Dighinala Police Station officer-in-charge Suvash Chandra Paul told The Independent that they entered Bangladesh from Tripura. BSS adds: Officials earlier said the security forces late yesterday arrested the five suspected NDFB operatives from remote Dighinala area of southeastern Khagrachhari hill district. They said under the raid prompted by a tip-off and also joined by police the five suspects were arrested from a hideout yesterday evening while they were handed over to police. A security official familiar with the arrest said the NDFB operatives confessed that they were getting their supplies of finance and weapons through China, Bhutan, Thailand and Myanmar. The security forces also seized pamphlets, walky-talkies, mobile phone sets and Indian currency from the suspected NDFB operatives fighting in Assam for over two decades for an independent Bodoland. The arrests came a month after Bangladesh police arrested two Indian nationals who confessed to be operatives of Pakistan- based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) having links with India's Asif Reza Commando Force (ARCF), Bangladesh's Harkatul Jihad al Islami (HuJI) and Indian gangster Dawdood Ibrahim's network. http://www.theindependent-bd.com/details.php?nid=138578 |
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