Chitrabon Hazarika () is the Finance Secretary of the banned group

ULFA The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) is an armed separatist insurgent organisation, that operates in the Indian state of Assam. It seeks to establish an independent sovereign nation state of Assam for the indigenous Assamese people thro ...

Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

. He has also been holding the additional charge of general secretary since

Anup Chetia Anup Chetia ( Assamese: অনুপ চেতিয়া) (real name Golap Baruah also known as Sunil Baruah, Bhaijan or Ahmed) is the General Secretary of the banned United Liberation Front of Assam in Assam. He is also one of the founder le ...

’s arrest in 1997. A commerce graduate he hails from Jakhalabandha in

Nagaon Nagaon is a city and a municipal board in Nagaon district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Assam. It is situated east of Guwahati. With a population of 1,16,355 as per 2011 census it is an AMRUT City and 4th biggest city ...

district of

. He is married to

Pranati Deka Pranati Deka ( Assamese: প্ৰণতি ডেকা) is the Cultural Secretary of the outlawed outfit ULFA in Assam. She hails from Nalbari district of Assam. She is also the wife of the outfit's finance secretary Chitrabon Hazarika. Arres ...

, the arrested Cultural Secretary of the group.

Arrest

On Sunday night, 1 November 2009, some unidentified gunman took Hazarika, along with the group’s foreign secretary

Sashadhar Choudhury Sashadhar Choudhury ( Assamese: শশধৰ চৌধুৰী) or Sasha Choudhury (real name Sailen Choudhury) is the Foreign Secretary of the outlawed group ULFA, Assam. His predecessor was Javed Bora. He hails from Helosa gaon in Nalbari dist ...

away from a house in sector 3 of Uttara in

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. Later they were pushed back to the Indo-Bangladesh Border where they were detained by BSF in

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while trying to infiltrate on the night of 4 November. They were handed over to Assam Police on 6 November by the BSF. But according to the Assam Police, the leaders surrendered before BSF in Tripura fleeing the crackdown against them in

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. On Saturday, 7 November 2009, the Special Operation Unit of the Assam police produced Choudhury and Hazarika before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup (Metropolitan).

Reaction

On 9 November 2009 ULFA called for a 12-hour Assam bandh from 6 am demanding their unconditional release. ULFA chairman

Arabinda Rajkhowa Arabinda Rajkhowa (born Rajib Rajkonwar), alias Mijanur Rahman Choudhury, is the former chairman of ULFA and the current head of ULFA pro-talks faction under which signed a peace accord with the Centre and the Assam government in the presence o ...

, in a statement issued through e-mail, described the two leaders' arrest as a "ploy to sabotage the process of finding a political solution to the problem and destroy ULFA militarily."

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