Bengaluru, Jan 27: Two days after the Bengaluru police nabbed a self-styled commander of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) in the city, the Central Crime Branch sleuths arrested a notorious terrorist from Electronic City on Monday.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Abhishek Goel said that the terrorist Sanju Bordolai is the ‘Organising Secretary’ of NDFB and had been trained in Bangladesh in the use of weapons.
“Bordolai was hiding in Electronic City after the recent massacre in Assam. We nabbed him based on specific inputs.
"We are coordinating with NIA and our Assam counterparts for the future course of action,” Mr. Goel said.
Anti-Indian terror organization
The National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) is an armed separatist outfit which seeks to obtain a sovereign Bodoland for the Bodo people in Assam, India. It is designated as a terrorist organization by the Government of India.
NDFB traces its origin to Bodo Security Force, a militant group formed in 1986. The current name was adopted in 1994, after the group rejected Bodo Accord signed between the Government of India and ABSU-BPAC. The group has carried out several attacks in Assam, targeting non-Bodo civilians as well as the Indian security forces. In particular, it has targeted Santhal, Munda and Oraon adivasis (tribals), whose ancestors had been brought to Assam as tea labourers during British Raj.
Its large-scale attacks against the tribals during the 1996 Assam Legislative Assembly elections led to the formation of Adivasi Cobra Force, a rival militant group. After 1996, the Christian-dominated NDFB was also involved in conflicts with the Hindu-dominated militant group Bodo Liberation Tigers Force (which surrendered in 2003). Since 2000, NDFB has increasingly targeted Bengali Muslims in what it claims to be the Bodo territory.
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