Kochi: Bodo militants handed over to Assam police

Kochi: The three arrested Assam natives, suspected to be cadres of banned National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), will be taken back separately by Assam police.

The Ernakulam Rural police had held them from a plywood factory at Mannur village, near Perumbavoor on Thurs-day. The first of the three accused will be taken back on Sunday morning and the other two will be flown out on December 2 and 3 respectively. Police said that due to security reasons, there were rest-rictions on transporting more than one accused in a flight.

A six-member Assam police team reached Kun-nathunadu police station from Guwahati around 3 p.m. on Friday. The Kunnathunadu police handed over the accused, who were kept at the station, to the team who then took them to Kolencherry first class judicial magistrate for transit warrant. Later, the accused were taken to Muvattupuzha for the mandatory medical examination. The accused B. Mehar, aka Manu Basum-ataray, 25, B. Pritam Basu-mataray, 24, and B. Dalanj aka Dhumketu Brahma, 35, all residents of Kokr-ajhar district in Assam, were wanted in a case registered by the Gossaigaon police in Kokrajhar district invoking various sections of IPC, Arms Act and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

According to cops, the accused were arrested on a memo issued by the superintendent of police, Crime Branch, Assam, to Mr J. Himendranath, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Kochi city), who has additional charge of district police chief, Ernakulam Rural.