Shillong, Aug 02: Former Meghalaya minister Kopin Chandra Boro, who hit the headlines last month for having escaped from the clutches of his abductors, has been arrested on the basis of a militant's confession that he had paid ransom to a banned group for getting his wife abducted and killed, police said. Boro was arrested by Assam Police from his Titrikilla residence in West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya last night, said the Director General of Police, L Sailo.
Refusing to pinpoint the charge under which the former Meghalaya agriculture and weaving minister was arrested, the DGP said it was "possibly in connection with the murder of his wife".
Boro was taken to Goalpara district in Assam to be produced in a court, the DGP said. The arrest was a sequel to a joint raid by Assam and Meghalaya Police at his Shillong residence on July 24 last from where four persons were nabbed for their alleged connection with underground militants.
Of the four, three were released on PR bond the next day while one person was arrested for his alleged links with Ulfa.
He later revealed during interrogation that Boro had paid ransom to the militants to get his wife Cheina Singh Boro killed, police said. Boro and his wife were abducted from Suarkona village in Goalpara district on June 14 by suspected militants. While he managed to escape from his abductors, the decomposed body of his wife was found in a jungle on June 21.
Boro is the second ex-minister in Meghalaya to have been arrested recently. NCP leader Adolf 'Hitler' Marak was recently arrested for politician-ultra nexus. Bureau Report