Guwahati, June 06 2009: The arrested Dimasa militant chief is a health-conscious person.

DHD's Black Widow faction commander-in-chief Jewel Gorlosa spent tens of thousands of rupees every month to keep himself fit.

The supremo of the Black Widow was arrested by a combined team of Assam Police and Karnataka Police from Bangalore along with two of his aides recently.

He used to spend about fifty five to sixty thousand rupees each month to keep himself fit.

"He was self-conscious, a man who only thinks of himself, but changes his colour when under pressure.

He was a dubious and ruthless kind of a man who used to spend a huge amount of money on entertainment." This is how DGP Assam, GM Srivastava, described the Black Widow chief, a man wanted in a number of cases of murders and kidnappings.

Giving a brief on the arrest of Gorlosa at a press conference here today, Srivastava said, "We received intelligence inputs that Gorlosa and his friends were staying in Nepal.

And just as we were trying to trace and locate him, as luck would have it we got further information about the movement of some persons of Northeast origin and their suspicious activities in Bangalore".

On May 31, the top cop said, Assam Police sent a team to Bangalore.

"The team saw the location and then contacted Karnataka Police.

Finally, a combined efforts by Assam Police and Karnataka Police ensured his (Gorlosa) arrest along with Partha Warisa, third in Black Widow echelon; and one Samir Ahmed, an employee of HSBC Bank in Bangalore.

Samir, the DGP said, was their fund manager and also used to arrange for their stay and documents such as driving licence etc.

Gorlosa rented a house there on a monthly rent of Rs.9,000, the papers for which were arranged by Samir.

He and Partha studied together in NC Hills, the place that the Black Widow held to ransom since 2005 .

"While in Nepal, Gorlosa used to liaise with Niranjan Hojai, the outfit's "commander-in-chief" believed to be staying somewhere in south-east Asia, through the Internet and he in turn used to pass instructions on the cadres," Srivastava said.

Prior to his arrest, the DGP said, Gorlosa, who already had a Nepalese passport against a fake name Vir Bahadur Chetri, made an attempt to take another against the name Debojit Sinha, his fake name.

While in Nepal, Gorlosa used to stay at the house of a Nepalese lady who was into filmmaking, the DGP said without elaborating further.

"We will take up the matter with Nepal through diplomatic channel".

"Their network is spread to at least two south-east Asian countries".

Srivastava said Gorlosa owned two buildings in Nepal and had invested a huge amount of money in different places.

"Mohit Hojai (arrested chief of North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council) used to fund the insurgent group," he said.

The outfit, Srivastava said, planned to set up base in Bangladesh and so sent its foreign secretary Frankie Dimasa there.

Frankie was to have taken a 30-member group there for the purpose but before he could succeed in his mission, he was shot dead by Assam Police.

The DGP said the Black Widow received its weaponry from agents in Myanmar and it used to reach them through Mizoram.

"They had more weapons than the number of their cadres," the DGP said.

Not ruling out retaliatory attacks, Srivastava said, "I think they are in a state of shock now since their number 1 and number 3 are with us.

However, some of them may try to retaliate".

Giving an account of the arrest of Gorlosa, DIG, GP Singh, who led the Assam Police team to Bangalore, said police received inputs that Gorlosa used to go to a gym.

"So, we applied for its membership.

On the day of arrest, we went there and arrested him as soon as he was spotted," the DIG added.

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