The Hindu : Girl behind major ULFA mortar attacks surrenders

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Monday, Apr 21, 2003

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Girl behind major ULFA mortar attacks surrenders

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ULFA activist, Dwipamani Kalita, who surrendered before the police on Sunday, handing over a RPG shell to the Assam DGP, Harekrishna Deka (right) and the IGP (SB), Khagan Sarma, at the Special Branch headquarters in Guwahati.

GUWAHATI APRIL 20. A 20-year-old girl with a troubled family life was behind all major mortar attacks of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) here in the past one year, police said today.

Dwipamani, who surrendered today, was presented before the media by the police who claimed that a major arm of the ULFA attack had been completely neutralised.

She deposited a pistol and three rocket-propelled gun cells with the Special Branch of the city police.

She had all alone attacked the high security Assam Assembly campus, sending a shockwave throughout the country. She attacked the AGP office, killing three persons and injuring 21 others, including a former MP. She carried out all operations alone. She carried the mortar in bags, travelled in city buses and chose relatively safe areas to fire the mortar, said the Director-General of Police, H.K. Deka. Dwipamani, a student, told presspersons that she joined the ULFA due to personal bitterness and not to serve any cause or ideology.

``I was angry with my personal life and chose the path of destruction and like a machine I went on carrying on one after another mortar attack,'' she said, adding that it was a mistake and she wanted to begin her life afresh. Later, the IGP (SP), Khagen Sharma, said Dwipamani belonged to a three-member elite group of the ULFA, who were given special training in Bangladesh.

One member of the group, Dilip Roy, had been eliminated by the police at Garo hills, while the third member Pranay Roy was still at large.

Dwipamani acted alone without using any sophisticated communication network. She took instructions from her superiors while visiting ULFA camps in the Garo hills.

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