A team of officers from the Central Crime Branch (CCB) in Bengaluru have taken into custody a suspected Bodo militant, Sanju Bordoloi who was involved in the recent killing of adivasis on December 23, 2014, at Santipur village, Sonitpur, Assam in which six tribals were killed by NDFB cadre. He was wanted by NIA Guwahati in RC 04/2014 120(B),121, 147, 148, 302 IPC and two murder cases .
According to a Press release, on interrogation Sanju Bordoloi confessed that he was a member of NDFB-S & was involved in the recent massacre and that he had undergone insurgency training at Bangladesh from NSCN Naga cadre in 2009. He returned to India during April 2012 and stayed in the jungle areas of Kokrajhar, Shirang, Tezpur in Assam. He said he was organising secretary in banned NDFB(S) organisation. He fled from Assam on January 19, 2015 to evade arrest, he added in his confession. According to the police, he came to Bangalore on January 21 by train and had taken shelter in Electronics City area in the outskirts of Bangalore.
The police team which was led by Chandra Shekhar, Jt CP Crime, traced the suspect in Electronics City and took him into the custody. In his possession, CCB team found a Nokia mobile phone with a Karnataka SIM card and a PAN card in the name of Sanju Bordoloi. The NIA Guwahati team is here to take him into custody.