Jewel Garlosa (File Photo)
Bengaluru, June 5 : In a major breakthrough against militant groups in the north eastern, Juwel Gorlosa, the chief of Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel) group, commonly known as “Black Widow”, was arrested on Wednesday evening from Bengaluru. He was arrested in a joint operation by Karnataka police and Assam police. Gorlosa was arrested with two accomplices while trying to arrange a fake passport from Karnataka.
Reports said a combined force of Assam Police and Karnataka Police arrested Gorlosa along with two of his aides Partha Nunisa and Samir Dimasa from a hotel in Bangalore on Wednesday.
According to official sources, DIG (Central-West Range) GP Singh led the police team. Acting on intelligence inputs, a four-member team of Assam Police was camping in the Karnataka capital for the past four days to nab Garlosa, sources said. The team was to have moved court for a transit remand to bring Garlosa to Guwahati on Friday, the sources added.
Hours after Gorlosa’s arrest, police gunned down the “foreign secretary” of the outfit, Frankie Dimasa, in an encounter in Guwahati in the wee hours of Thursday. “Acting on a tip off that some militants were taking shelter on the hilltop at Bishnupur, we launched an operation early in the morning and in the resultant encounter, Frankie was killed,” ASP Debojit Deuri said.
He added that at least two other militants managed to escape under the cover of darkness. “The arrest of the Black Widow chief and killing of its foreign secretary is a major achievement for us,” said IGP (Law and Order) B Mahanta.
“Black Widow”, one of the most dreaded outfits operating in the north-east, is active mainly in North Cachar Hills.
This group has been involved in a number of terror strikes in the area in the recent past.
The publicity chief of the group, Faiphang Dimasa told a local news television channel that his outfit had decided to declare unilateral ceasefire till June 25 and asked the railways to resume its suspended train services and construction works.
Dimasa had asked the Northeast Frontier Railway, to resume work, which suspended its services after some of its employees and workers engaged in broad gauge conversion work were killed by the “Black Widow.”