A railway engine driver abducted by a little-known tribal outfit called United Democratic Liberation Army, from a remote area in Hailakandi district in southern Assam last month, was released unharmed by the abductors on Friday much to the relief of the Railway authorities and his family members.
A senior police officials of Hailakandi district said the railway driver, Tarun Kumar Bhattacharjee, was rescued by a police team from a forest on the Assam-Mizoram border early on Friday morning. The police, in fact, rescued him after he had been apparently set free by his captors somewhere inside the jungle close to the Mizoram border.
A small group of militants had whisked away the railway driver and his assistant at gun point by waylaying a passenger train they were driving from Ramnathpur in South Assam to Bairabi in Mizoram on October 20 evening.
"The two were abducted by the armed militants by stopping the train when it had slowed on the tracks that were under maintenance," a police official said.
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The ultras had released the assistant driver within a few days but continued to keep driver Bhattacharjee captive after demanding a ransom of Rs 1 crore. The UDLA is a small group comprising about fifty militants.
The police claimed to have no information about whether his family had made any payment to secure the release of Bhattacharjee.
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