A manager of a coal exporter Mrong enterprise to Bangladesh was abducted
in Meghalaya by three armed men of a rebel outfit, police said Tuesday.
No ransom call was received.
“Dipu Das was abducted by three heavily armed GNLA (Garo National
Liberation Army) rebels late Monday night from Gasuapara area,” Davies R
Marak, the district police chief of South Garo Hills, said.
Gasuapara in Meghalaya’s South Garo Hills district is about 500 km from
Shillong, the state capital. “We have launched a rescue operation in the
area to trace Das,” Marak said.
The GNLA had earlier slapped extortion demands ranging from Rs.5 lakh to
Rs.1 crore on petrol pump owners, coal dealers and businessmen in the
coal-rich districts of the Garo Hills. The GNLA is fighting for a
separate Garoland in western part of Meghalaya.
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