In a major crackdown against the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Friday conducted searches at 16 locations of Assam in connection with the ULFA recruitment case and militant training in Myanmar.
In a statement issued Friday, the NIA said the agency conducted searches at sixteen locations in seven districts of Assam, including Kamrup, Nalbani, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Sadiya, Charaideo and Sibasagar.
The case, which was registered suo moto by the NIA on May 18 this year, pertains to recruitment of youths in ULFA, extortion to strengthen ULFA and radicalisation of youths for unlawful activities and their training at camps based across the Indo-Myanmar border in Myanmar, the statement informed.
The case involves the ULFA (I), a faction of the outlawed outfit which is demanding sovereign Assam even as a huge chunk of the outfit led by Arabinda Rajkhowa surrendered in 2010 and is in talks with the government.
