Name: Banned ULFA(I)’s ‘operational commander’ arrested from Assam-Arunachal border -
Uploaded: 2025-05-24T13:57:49+05:30
Duration: 2 min 42 s
Description: Assam Police and paramilitary forces have arrested ULFA-I commander Rupam Asom near the Assam-Arunachal border. He is linked to extortion and a 2018 police officer killing.

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            <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The Assam Police, in collaboration with the Assam Rifles and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), arrested Rupam Asom, the ‘operational commander’ of proscribed outfit United Liberation Front of Assam ( ULFA (I) ). He was arrested from a forest area near the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border on May 24.<br>
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<p>Operations are underway in the area in search of more cadres of the militant group, an official said.<br>
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<p>Rupam, who was allegedly running the outfit's extortion racket in parts of Assam, was named in the NIA charge sheet in the killing of Bordumsa Police Station officer-in-charge Bhaskar Kalita in 2018.<br>
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<p>Rupam and his team have been hiding on the interstate border and carrying out extortion activities, the officer said.<br>
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<p>"Rupam Asom is the main person in the extortion activities in eastern Assam. We had information that he and his team were hiding in a jungle near the Assam-Arunachal border. Accordingly, an operation was launched on Friday night, and he was arrested," the officer said.<br>
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<p>The police have launched a manhunt in the bordering areas to trace and apprehend other members of the banned ULFA (I) group, he added.</p>
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            <div class="text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The Assam Police, in collaboration with the Assam Rifles and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), arrested Rupam Asom, the ‘operational commander’ of proscribed outfit United Liberation Front of Assam ( ULFA (I) ). He was arrested from a forest area near the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border on May 24.<br />
 </p>

<p>Operations are underway in the area in search of more cadres of the militant group, an official said.<br />
 </p>

<p>Rupam, who was allegedly running the outfit's extortion racket in parts of Assam, was named in the NIA charge sheet in the killing of Bordumsa Police Station officer-in-charge Bhaskar Kalita in 2018.<br />
 </p>

<p>Rupam and his team have been hiding on the interstate border and carrying out extortion activities, the officer said.<br />
 </p>

<p>"Rupam Asom is the main person in the extortion activities in eastern Assam. We had information that he and his team were hiding in a jungle near the Assam-Arunachal border. Accordingly, an operation was launched on Friday night, and he was arrested," the officer said.<br />
 </p>

<p>The police have launched a manhunt in the bordering areas to trace and apprehend other members of the banned ULFA (I) group, he added.</p>
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Assam Police and paramilitary forces have arrested ULFA-I commander Rupam Asom near the Assam-Arunachal border. He is linked to extortion and a 2018 police officer killing.

Banned ULFA(I)’s ‘operational commander’ arrested from Assam-Arunachal border

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