Guwahati:Elusive military commander of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), Paresh Barua, who, amusingly, continued
to be on the rolls of Indian Railways, is sacked, an official said on Friday.
Barua was appointed as a traffic porter by the railway authorities in 1978 under
the sports quota, but his salary was stopped in 1980 after he went underground.
"A railway employee with the name Paresh Barua was working as a porter at the
railway station of Tinsukia. The disciplinary body of the station has decided
to suspend him from the job," said S. Hajong, spokesperson of North East Frontier
Railway. The police believe that Paresh Barua is still elusive, hiding somewhere
along the Myanmar-China border Earlier, ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, who
remained
underground for almost two decades, was arrested in Bangladesh and brought to
India. In less than a month, the ULFA was dealt another body blow with the arrest
of the group's top leaders, including Rajkhowa, Raju Baruah, Chitraban Hazarika
and Sacha Chaudhary. The ULFA, which demands independence for the tea and
oil-rich
Assam, is running a three-decade-old campaign that has claimed the lives of 30,000
people.
