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4 bombers of NDFB arrested in India's N-E Assam

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Guwahati, India, May 28, IRNA -- Four bombers of NDFB, directly involved in the deadly serial explosions in India's northeastern state of Assam Oct 30, 2008, has been arrested by sleuths of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in separate raids, officials said on Friday.

A CBI spokesperson said Rahul Brahma was arrested Thursday from Zero town in Arunachal Pradesh where he was taking shelter with his wife and one child for the past few days.

Brahma drove a Maruti 800 car packed with explosives and parked the vehicle at a crowded business hub in Panbazar Oct 30 2008.

The car bomb went off killing eight people and wounded up to 30 others.

A total of nine near simultaneous explosions rocked Assam on that day killing 100 people and wounding 500 more, all the blasts blamed on the bombers of the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).

In another raid, CBI officials arrested three more NDFB bombers from Kokrajhar in western Assam – all of them directly linked to the explosion at Bongaigaon town.

The trio of B. Onsai, Indra Brahma, and Lukhra, rode a motorcycle packed with explosives and parked it in front of a shop in a crowded street in Bongaigaon, about 200 km west of here.

An alert shop owner informed the police about the unattended motorcycle – a bomb disposal squad towed the motorcycle for defusing, but for some techinical reasons the bomb went off before it could be defused injuring two policemen.

“All the four arrested are directly linked to the serial blasts and we consider it as a major success and very soon we are hoping to catch a few more,” CBI Superintendent of Police N.S. Kharayat said.

“Vital clues were provided by NDFB chairman Ranjan Daimary during our nine days interrogation,” the CBI official said.

Daimary was handed over to Indian authorities May 5 by Bangladesh and is now in the custody of Assam Police. Earlier the NDFB terror mastermind was in CBI custody for nine days until Tuesday.

“Daimary has confessed to the crime of masterminding the serial explosions and said the explosives were procured locally from Assam and also from Bhutan,” the CBI official said.

The CBI had alredy filed a charge sheet naming Daimary and 19 more NDFB militants for the serial blasts Oct 30 2008 in Assam.