PCG member Lachit Bordoloi held

Peoples’ Consultative Group (PCG) member Lachit Bordoloi was on Monday arrested from Assam’s Dibrugarh district in connection with ULFA’s alleged plan to hijack an aircraft from the airport here. Bordoloi was arrested following a statement given by arrested ULFA leader Manoj Tamuli who was trained by Afghan militants in hijacking a plane, a senior police said.

Bordoloi, also the secretary general of human rights body Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti, was arrested from Moran in Dibrugarh district while he was travelling in a bus from Tinsukia to Guwahati, said the official. PCG had been constituted by ULFA for carry on peace talks with the Centre on its behalf. He is being brought to Guwahati for interrogation. The police have seized a laptop and two CDs from his house on Sunday, the official added. The police are also interrogating senior advocate and ULFA lawyer Nekibur Zaman as Tamuli had also mentioned his name, he said.