Assam Police Guns Down Top ULFA (I) Leader Leader Dwipen Saud in Bongaigaon
Dwipen Saud had recently replaced former ULFA-I Deputy Commander-in-Chief Drishti Rajkhowa as the Commander of the outfit’s Western Command.
| 29 April 2021 6:05 AM GMT
Bongaigaon: Top ULFA-I leader and the Commander for Western Command – Dwipen Saud was killed in an encounter between the police and the ULFA-I militants at Besimari in Bongaigaon district of Assam.
DGP Assam Police Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta posted on Facebook, Our brave officers and battalion personnel from Bongaigaon district came to learn about the location of some suspected militants today early hours which culminated in an encounter at Besimari under Manikpur PS in Bongaigaon District a little while ago.
Top ULFA (I) militant shot dead by security forces in Assam
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Last Updated: Apr 29, 2021, 11:46 AM IST
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Dwipen Saud, the newly appointed leader of ULFA (I) western command, was shot dead during an exchange of fire with security forces in Mankipur police station area.
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A top ULFA (I) militant was killed during an encounter with security forces in Bongaigaon district of Assam on Thursday and one of his aides arrested, state DGP Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta said.
The encounter took place this morning at around 5:30 AM.
Guwahati, Assam:
Top leader of the United Liberation Front of Asom -Independent (ULFA-I), Dwipen Saud, was gunned down this morning after a fierce gun battle with the security forces in western Assam s Bongaigaon district.
Dwipen Saud was the banned outfit s newly appointed western command chief. He was appointed after former deputy commander-in-chief Drishti Rajkhowa surrendered in November.
Shortly after the encounter, doctors at Bongaigaon Civil Hospital said Dwipen Saud was brought dead .
Padum Rai, another outfit member, has been taken into the custody along with two guns, a grenade, and several mobile phones.
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Altogether 1040 members of five militant outfits operating in undivided Karbi Anglong district in Assam laid down arms here on Tuesday evening, two days ahead of signing a peace accord in the presence of Union home minister Amit Shah. Shah is scheduled to visit the poll-bound state on February 25.
This is the third major “mainstreaming” of rebels since 2020. Altogether 1,615 members from three National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) factions had laid down arms in January 2020, three days after the signing of the tripartite Bodo Accord. This was followed by laying down of arms by 64 rebels belonging to four outfits, the big catch being Ulfa(I)’s deputy commander-in-chief Drishti Rajkhowa.