An ULFA militant trained for carrying out hijack of aircraft has been arrested by the Assam Police, confirmed intelligence reports saying that the rebel group had plans to hijack aircraft in the Northeastern region.Assam Police IGP (Special Branch) Khagen Sharma said on Saturday Manoj Tamuli, a hardcore ULFA militant, was picked up along with his fiancee Dharitri Sarma from a rented house located at Jalukbari on the outskirts of Guwahati, on Friday night. During interrogations, he said the ULFA had indeed hatched a plot to hijack an aircraft.“The militant revealed that an Afghan-trained ULFA leader had only recently trained a group of 16 members of the outfit somewhere near the Indo-Bhutan boder in Baska district on the basics of hijacking an aircraft,” said Sharma.“The militant during the inerrogations also said the ULFA was working on a plan to hijack an aircraft from one of the several airports in the Northeastern region with the intention of taking it away to Bangladesh or Nepal and then onwards to Afghanistan or Pakistan,” the IGP said.It was only last month that intelligence agencies had issued an alert at all airports of the Northeast against a possible attempt by the ULFA to hijack an aircraft with the intention of taking it out of India to exert pressure to secure release of some of its senior leaders currently in jail.
