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Blast suspect held

By Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI, March 18 � Acting on the specific information provided by the Army intelligence, Assam Police, jointly with the CRPF, arrested ULFA cadre Babul Das alias Uday Das (31) from the city�s Kahilipara area around 8 pm yesterday in connection with the March 14 Rajiv Bhawan blast here.

The police team was led by SP (Operations) Mugdha Jyoti Mahanta and Additional SP (City) Longnit Terang. The personnel of the 128 Battalion of the CRPF took part in the operation.

Army intelligence sources here said that the ULFA cadre triggered the March 14 blast on in the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) headquarters and the Army intelligence (No. 5CI DET ECCIU) had specific information about him. The ULFA cadre is the son of Upen Das of Barpeta. The police team recovered a mobile phone from him.

On interrogation, the cadre confessed to his planting the IED on the Rajiv Bhawan premises, said the sources.

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