Altogether 14 persons from upper Assam’s Sivasagar and Charaideo districts have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of the three ONGC employees in the early hours of Wednesday. Gogoi (Sivasagar district), Ritil Saikia (Golaghat district) and Alokesh Saikia (Jorhat district) — were abducted by suspected Ulfa(I) cadres from the company’s rig site at Lakwa in Sivasagar district by a group of about five armed cadres belonging the proscribed outfit. Sivasagar SP Amitava Sinha said the 14 persons were arrested from multiple locations in Sivasagar and Charaideo districts for their alleged links with the abduction carried out by the proscribed outfit. The trio were whisked away in an ambulance stationed at the rig site towards the Nagaland border. Mon district borders Sivasagar and Charaideo districts.

Source: The Telegraph April 23, 2021 20:15 UTC