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GUWAHATI: The Paresh Baruah faction of the insurgent group United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) has released the second abducted employee of New Delhi-based oil exploration firm Quippo Oil and Gas Infrastructure.
The Assam Rifles found Ram Kumar at Longwa village in the Mon district of Nagaland on Monday.
“The Assam Rifles found him this morning and handed him over to Tizit police. He will be handed over to Assam Police following formalities,” Mon District Magistrate, Thavaseelan K said.
On December 21 last year, the ULFA had abducted Kumar and another employee of the firm, Pranab Kumar Gogoi, from their workplace in Arunachal’s Diyun and apparently, taken them to Myanmar where the outfit operates from.
Quippo Employee Ram Kumar released by ULFA (I) in Nagaland
Ram Kumar who worked as a radio operator was abducted with another employee Pranab Kumar Gogoi by the banned outfit on December 21.
| 5 April 2021 5:59 AM GMT
GUWAHATI: The ULFA (I) has released the second abducted Quippo employee Ram Kumar in an undisclosed location near the India-Myanmar border in Nagaland, said reports.
Reportedly, he is under the custody of the Assam Rifles.
Ram Kumar who worked as a radio operator was abducted with another employee Pranab Kumar Gogoi by the banned outfit on December 21 from the Kumchaikha drilling site in Innao area of Changlang district in Arunachal Pradesh.
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Bihar-based Ram Kumar was found along the Myanmar border in Nagaland’s Mon district
The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I) on Monday released the second abducted employee of a New Delhi-based private oil exploration firm along the India-Myanmar border in Nagaland’s Mon district.
The Bihar-based Ram Kumar, 35, was released at an undisclosed location two days after his Assam-based co-worker Pranab Kumar Gogoi, 51, was set free near the border in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh miles to the northeast.
Mr. Kumar was engaged as a radio operator and Mr. Gogoi as drilling superintendent by the Quippo Oil and Gas Infrastructure Limited. The ULFA-I members had abducted them from the Kumchaika drilling site in Changlang district on December 21, 2020.
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.