BDR hands over NDFB chief Ranjan Daimary to BSF

DAWKI: Ranjan Daimary alias D R Nabla, chief of the anti-talks faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and wanted in the 2008 serial bomb blasts in Assam, was handed over to BSF by BDR on Saturday, official sources said.

Daimary, who was hiding in Bangladesh, was handed over by BDR near Dawki international border in Meghalaya in the early hours, the sources said.

NDFB was originally formed under Daimary's leadership as Boro Security Force on October 3, 1986 and on November 25, 1994, the outfit changed its name to NDFB.

It had entered into a ceasefire agreement with the Government on May 25, 2005, but mostly flouted the ground rules of a ceasefire.

The group then split into two factions - one supporting the ceasefire, led by B Sungthagra alias Dhirn Boro - and the other hardline faction, led by Daimary, which called itself the real NDFB and sought to establish Bodoland.

The split came after the October 30, 2008 serial blasts in Assam in which Daimary was named as a mastermind by the investigating agencies.

Daimary was suspended from the outfit by the other faction subsequently.