The NIA has chargesheeted three top leaders of banned terror outfit NDFB(S),
including outfit chairman Songbijit Kathar and self-styled army chief Bishnu Goyari, in a May 2014 terror attack in Assam in which three innocent people were killed and two others injured.
Apart from Songbijit and Goyari, the agency has also chargesheeted three other hardcore terrorists including, self-styled deputy Army chief Binod Mushahary, lankeswar Boro and Santosh Khekatary under various sections of the IPC.
The case relates to the terrorist attack at Narsingbari at Baksa under BTAD in Assam and the agency filed a chargsheet against the five accused at a designated court in Guwahati.
“The involvement of the chargesheeted accused persons has been found established in the ghastly terrorist attack on the night of 01.05.2014 upon the innocent villagers of Narsingbari Village, under Gobardhana Police Station of Baksa district. The said terror attack resulted in the death of three innocent villagers on the spot and injury to two others by indiscriminate firing with sophisticated weapons,” NIA said in a statement on Thursday.
The NIA said three top leaders of the banned outfit — Songbijit, Bishnu and Mushahary — have been chargesheeted for the first time by the agency for their involvement in the conspiracy for the terrorist act.
They are evading arrest and wanted in the case. Till date, NIA has arrested total 61 terrorists of different ranks of NDFB(S) in connection with the eight cases entrusted to it for investigation, pertaining to the terrorist attacks upon innocent people of different communities in Assam in the month of May and December of 2014.
With this chargesheet against five accused, the number of NDFB(S) cadres chargesheeted by NIA so far stands at 60.