Chitrabon Hazarika (

Assamese Assamese may refer to: * Assamese people, a socio-ethnolinguistic identity of north-eastern India * People of Assam, multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic and multi-religious people of Assam * Assamese language, one of the easternmost Indo-Aryan language ...

: চিত্ৰবন হাজৰিকা) is the Finance Secretary of the banned group

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 ...

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. He has also been holding the additional charge of general secretary since

Anup Chetia Anup Chetia (Assamese: অনুপ চেতিয়া) (real name Golap Baruah also known as Sunil Baruah, Bhaijan or Ahmed) is the General Secretary of the banned United Liberation Front of Assam in Assam. He is also one of the founder lea ...

’s arrest in 1997. A commerce graduate he hails from Jakhalabandha in

Nagaon Nagaon (previously Nowgong; Assamese নগাঁও), is a town and a municipal board in Nagaon district in the Indian state of Assam. It is situated east of Guwahati. History This division was organised on the both banks of Kalang river b ...

district of

. He is married to

Pranati Deka Pranati Deka (Assamese: প্ৰণতি ডেকা) is the Cultural Secretary of the outlawed outfit ULFA in Assam. She hails from Nalbari district of Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas ...

, the arrested Cultural Secretary of the group.

Arrest

On Sunday night, November 1, 2009, some unidentified gunman took Hazarika, along with the group’s foreign secretary

Sashadhar Choudhury Sashadhar Choudhury (Assamese: শশধৰ চৌধুৰী) or Sasha Choudhury (real name Sailen Choudhury) is the Foreign Secretary of the outlawed group ULFA, Assam. His predecessor was Javed Bora. He hails from Helosa gaon in Nalbari distric ...

away from a house in sector 3 of Uttara in

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. Later they were pushed back to the Indo-Bangladesh Border where they were detained by

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while trying to infiltrate on the night of November 4. They were handed over to Assam Police on November 6 by the

. But according to the Assam Police, the leaders surrendered before

in Tripura fleeing the crackdown against them in

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. On Saturday, November 7, 2009, the Special Operation Unit of the Assam police produced Choudhury and Hazarika before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup (Metropolitan).

Reaction

On November 9, 2009 ULFA called for a 12-hour Assam bandh from 6 am demanding their unconditional release. ULFA chairman

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 ...

, in a statement issued through e-mail, described the two leaders’ arrest as a “ploy to sabotage the process of finding a political solution to the problem and destroy ULFA militarily.”

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