Kaberi Kachari is a writer, poet, political and economical speaker and the wife of

Arabinda Rajkhowa Arabinda Rajkhowa ( Assamese: (real name Rajiv Rajkonwar), alias Mijanur Rahman Choudhury, is the Chairman of the banned group ULFA. He is one of the founder members of the group. He was also the Vice-President of the Indo-Burma Revolutionary Fr ...

, the chairman of the peace talks process outfit called the United Liberation Front of Assam

ULFA The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) (Assamese: সংযুক্ত মুক্তি বাহিনী, অসম) is an armed separatist organisation operating in the Northeast Indian state of Assam. It seeks to establish an indep ...

. She was known for her poetic excellence from her college days.

Personal life

In the late 80s, when she was a student at the

Gauhati University Gauhati University, also known as GU, is a collegiate public state university located in Guwahati, Assam, India. It was established on 26 January 1948 under the provisions of an Act enacted by the Assam Legislative Assembly. It is the oldest ...

, she married

. They had to spend the initial days of their marriage in jungles of Assam and Bhutan. They have two children Khamseng Rajkumari (Daughter) and Gadadhar (Son).

Arrest

She, along with her husband Rajkhowa, deputy C-in-C

Raju Baruah Raju Baruah ( Assamese: (ৰাজু বৰুৱা) (real name Hitesh Kalita), alias Anees Ahmed, is the Deputy Commander-in-Chief, the Chief of military operations, military spokesperson and the head of the near-autonomous ' Enigma Force' of t ...

and Rajkhowa's bodyguard Raja Bora were said to be surrendered to the BSF on 4 Dec 2009 morning near the Indo-Bangladesh border in

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. She was not produced in court for no pending cases were there against her. She and the other women along with their minors are housed in the 4th Assam Police Battalion's guesthouse in Guwahati.

Family custody

Rajkhowa's elder brother Ajay Rajkonwar reportedly told that he wants to take custody of his brother's family so that their 97-year-old mother could meet them. "We are ready to take custody of Kaveri and the two children -- 13-year-old daughter and five-year old son -- and take them to our mother at Lakwa in Sibsagar. If Kaveri wants to stay back for the outfit's organisational work, we have nothing to say," he said to reporters.

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Personal life

Arrest

Family custody

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