Assam govt pay compensation of NH construction to ULFA(I) chairman's kin without informing NIA
ULFA (I) Chairman Abhijit Asom alias Dr Mukul Hazarika had sent a letter of declaration to the revenue department of the Assam government on February 3, 2016 from Elton, England to pay compensation including his share to his family.
“I have no objection if the full compensation including my share towards the acquisition of land for the purpose of construction of National Highway over our ancestral property is paid to the family of my elder brother Kumudeswar Hazarika,” Abhijit Asom alias Dr Mukul Hazarika wrote in the letter.
Mukul Hazarika, originally resided at Kakhorigaon under Chalchali Mouza in Nagaon district of Assam also said in the letter that, he will not raise any claim or objection in the court of law thereafter for the aforesaid compensation.
While the anti-terror probe agency had registered a case against Dr Mukul Hazarika and declared him as the most wanted terrorist, the Assam government paid an amount of Rs 19,93,480 to Abhijit Asom’s family without informed to NIA.
According to the reports, the Sadar revenue circle office under Nagaon sub-division in the middle Assam district paid the amount in two cheques.
The documents revealed that, an amount of Rs 2.20 lakh (by a cheque no 0096491) and Rs 17,73,480 (by a cheque no 0096492) had paid to the family of Mukul Hazarika.
The documents also revealed that, both cheques were received by Anjali Hazarika, wife of Kumudeswar Hazarika, elder brother of Abhijit Asom alias Mukul Hazarika.
NIA had summoned in 2015 the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent) Chairman Abhijit Asom alias Dr Mukul Hazarika in connection with a case registered against the outfit group.
The investigating agency had sent the summon against the ULFA(I) Chairman related to the case 4/2013 registered at the agency’s Guwahati branch in the Lachit Nagar area.
In 2011, the hard-line faction ULFA had declared Dr Abhijit Barman as the new acting chairman of the organization after its chairman Arobinda Rajkhowa and other top leaders were arrested in Bangladesh and ULFA had declared Dr Abhijit Barman alias Dr Abhijit Asom as the new chairman of the organization.
In past years, security agencies had been trying to collect records, information about the chief of the outfit group.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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