Information About Incident 61686-123685-313648 in Jaintia Hills India

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Meanwhile, the crime branch of Guwahati city police and State police carried out a joint operation last night & arrested eight members of a criminal gang suspected to be behind the abduction of businessman Rajib Sharma at Ri-Bhoi District, reports The Telegraph.

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Meanwhile, the crime branch of Guwahati city police and State police carried out a joint operation last night & arrested eight members of a criminal gang suspected to be behind the abduction of businessman Rajib Sharma at Ri-Bhoi District, reports The Telegraph. Sharma is yet to be freed. SFs seized two .9mm pistols and five rounds of ammunitions from the arrested persons. According to the Police, the arrested criminals were part of the gang, which abducted a Guwahati city based businessman, Rajib Sharma when he had gone to Byrnihat in Meghalaya on February 1. Later, the family of the businessman received a call on January 3 by suspected National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) militants asking for a ransom of INR 10 million for the trader s release. Sources in the crime branch said of the eight arrested so far, Madhu Boro is suspected to be an NDFB member. The other arrested persons have been identified as Sobiram Basumatary and his wife Mahima Rabha Sachi, Rajkumar, Shiman Basumatary, Raju Boro, Rahul Basumatary and Pranjoy Mushahary.

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61686-123685-313648 2/6/2013 India SFs-GNLA exchange fire in Meghalaya

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