Guwahati, Jan 06: Continuing their crack down on
those behind the New Year's Day serial blasts here that
claimed five lives, police have so far arrested six persons
including ULFA cadres.
Sanjib Talukdar, Imran Choudhury, Hemanta Phukan,
Ravinder Singh, Tarun Kalita and Ganesh Kumar have been
arrested for their role in the blasts that also injured 50.
Some of them are ULFA cadres, while the rest are
linkmen of the banned group, police said.
DIG (Central-Western Range) G P Singh claimed Talukdar
had supplied explosives to another prime accused named Pranjal
Deka, who used them for triggering the three blasts here on
January 1.
Talukdar told reporters outside the CJM court that he
had been acting as a carrier for ULFA for the past six months
and had handed over the explosives to Deka at Adabari bus
depot here.
He was arrested from Rangiya near here on Saturday and
remanded in seven days of police custody by Kamrup chief
judicial magistrate yesterday.
Police had released Deka's photograph as prime suspect
a day after the blast and a massive manhunt has been launched
to nab him.
Bureau Report
First Published: Tuesday, January 06, 2009, 00:00