UNLF man
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 17 2015:
Keithellakpam Nabachandra alias Chilheiba (48) s/o Mohon, a Major of the proscribed UNLF, who was arrested by a combined team of India intelligence sleuths and Bangladesh police last month from his residence located at the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh has been brought to Imphal yesterday.
According to a source, the Indian and Bangladeshi authorities have been maintaining their silence over the arrest although family and the UNLF claimed that he was arrested from his Dhaka residence on Feb 11 .
Bangladeshi authority reportedly handed Nabachandra to its Indian counterparts in the first week of March at Dawki town in Meghalaya.
A team of Imphal West police went to Shillong and brought him here yesterday.
Nabachandra, who has adopted Bangladesh citizenship, originally hails from Soibam Leikai, Imphal.
He joined the UNLF in 1992 .
UNLF chairman RK Meghen alias Sanayaima was also arrested in similar fashion a few years back.
The Indian authorities later claimed to have arrested Sanayaima from a place in Bihar.