Abducted oil employees released in Northeast The Ulfa (I), whose stated goal is “sovereignty” for Assam, had reportedly sought Rs 20 crore for the release of the duo
Two employees of an oil drilling company, who were abducted by rebels from Changlang district in Arunachal Pradesh on December 21 last year, have been released.
While Ulfa (Independent) released Ram Kumar, 35, in Mon district of Nagaland on Monday morning, his colleague Pranab Kumar Gogoi, 51, was set free at Nampong in Changlang district on April 1.
Lt Col Sumit K. Sharma, public relations officer (defence), based in Kohima, said in a two-paragraph statement that a patrolling team of the Mon battalion of Assam Rifles intercepted Kumar, a radio operator with the New Delhi-based Quippo Oil & Gas Infrastructure Limited, at Lungwa village along the border with Myanmar.
ULFA-I military chief Paresh Baruah. File
While threatening to kill Ram Kumar, the outfit said it would not harm Assamese employee abducted along with him The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent or ULFA (I) has threatened to kill an abducted Bihar-based man if the oil drilling firm that employed him failed to pay for his release by February 16.
Members of the ULFA (I) had abducted radio operator Ram Kumar, 35, and drilling superintendent Pranab Kumar Gogoi, 5, from the Kumchaikha hydrocarbon drilling site in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh on December 21, 2020. The two were taken to an unknown location in Myanmar.
Employee from Bihar will be victim if ‘due share’ not paid, ULFA (I) tells oil firm
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Extremist outfit says another abducted employee, an Assamese, will not be harmed
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Extremist outfit says another abducted employee, an Assamese, will not be harmed
The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent) ULFA (I) has said a man from Bihar, one of the two employees of a private oil firm its cadres had abducted from an oil drilling site in Arunachal Pradesh almost a month ago, “will be a victim” if “anything goes wrong”.
It said the other employee, an Assamese, would not be harmed.