Blow to NDFB, deputy chief nabbed

Samudra Gupta Kashyap

The anti-talk faction of the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) has suffered a major blow with security forces arresting its deputy commander-in-chief B Jwangkhang alias George Boro in Mizoram.

Jwangkhang, the main accused in the October 2008 serial blasts in Assam that had left nearly 100 people dead, had last month stated that the outfit would kill 20 “Indians” for each of its cadre killed by security forces. The outfit did go on to kill 22 people, most of them Hindi-speaking settlers, in a series of attacks on November 8 after one of its cadres was killed.

The CBI, which had earlier chargesheeted Jwangkhang for the serial blasts, had also announced a cash reward for information leading to his arrest.

Sources said Jwangkhang was recently in Bangladesh and had sneaked into India and reached Aizawl. Security forces, who were tracking him, zeroed in on him after he checked into a hotel in the Mizoram capital. He will be handed over to the Assam Police in a couple of days.