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New Delhi : ULFA's top leader Arabinda Rajkhowa, his wife and another key militant were today handed over to the Indian authorities by Bangladeshi agencies at an outpost along the border in Meghalaya, paving the way for peace talks with the banned militant outfit.
According to teh PTI reports the custody of 53-year-old Rajkhowa along with 9 others, including ULFA's military operations deputy chief Raju Barua was given to the BSF at the Dawki outpost in the Jaintia hills district, official sources said.
Along with them were Rajkhowa's wife and two children, his bodyguard Raju Borah, Barua's wife and son, and wife and daughter of ULFA's self-styled foreign secretary Sashadhar Choudhury, they said.
They were later flown to Guwahati where they surrendered before the Assam Police, the sources said. They were immediately taken into preventive custody for completion of various legal formalities, the sources said.
Rajkhowa, founder member of the outfit, was detained in Bangladesh recently.
