Agartala, Nov 6 (IANS) Border Security Force (BSF) troopers have detained two senior United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) leaders along the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura, officials said here Friday.
“Top ULFA functionaries Chitraban Hazarika and Shashadhar Chowdhury were detained by our patrol party Thursday night along the Bangladesh border in western Tripura,” an official said on condition of anonymity.

“The ULFA leaders are being interrogated,” the official added.

Senior BSF officials declined to comment on the matter.

Tripura’s Director General of Police (DGP) Pranay Sahaya told IANS that the police had no information about the arrests.

“We are trying to talk to the BSF officials to collect this information,” he added.

ULFA’s military spokesperson Raju Baruah earlier said that Choudhury, the outfit’s foreign secretary and Hazarika, the finance secretary were picked up by Bangladeshi intelligence officials late Sunday night from a house in Dhaka’s Uttara area, a posh area in the Bangladeshi capital city.

“Since Sunday night, there was no information of them (the ULFA leaders) and we suspect they might have been handed over to our enemies (meaning India),” Baruah told the local media via telephone and email in Guwahati.