The prime focus of elusive Ulfa chief Paresh Baruah is to discredit the pro-talk faction of Ulfa holding talks with the government through its campaign in media and by establishing contact with leaders presently in ceasefire mode.
Disclosing that Ulfa chief was calling up leaders of pro-talk faction of Ulfa frequently, authoritative security sources in the home ministry told this newspaper that conversation between Ulfa chief and pro-talk leaders revealed that Baruah was calling up his former comrades with his hidden agenda of engineering split among them.
Referring intercepts of telephonic conversations between them, security sources pointed out that in one of the conversations Baruah equated the status of pro-talk leaders of Ulfa and NSCN (I-M).
“Arguing that when NSCN (I-M) leaders are calling the shots and dictating terms to New Delhi forcing their charter of demands, the pro-talk Ulfa leaders are treated like a second grade organisation,” this is what Ulfa chief was found to have been referring to pro-talk Ulfa leaders during the telephone conversations, said security sources.
Pointing out that Ulfa chief called up some of the pro-talk leaders soon after they appeared before the court in cases pending against them, security sources said that Baruah once again equated their status with NSCN (I-M) leaders and argued as to how NSCN (I-M) leaders have been given amnesty from court cases while they have been forced to appear before the court.
security sources claimed that the Ulfa chief was trying to regain his hold among the people.
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Ap gets notice on number plates
AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, FEB. 7
In a strong rap to the Andhra Pradesh government for “deliberate disobedience” of its orders on the installation of high security registration number plates in all the vehicles, the Supreme Court on Tuesday issued contempt notice to the state’s transport secretary and transport commissioner.
While taking tough stance on the issue, a bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justices A.K. Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar also imposed litigation cost of `10,000 on some states found to be lingering on the matter.
In order to make the officers accountable for not implementing the orders, the bench in its verdict said that the money should be recovered from their salary and not to be paid form the exchequer.
In order to make the states to work on the plan in a faster manner, the court fixed a deadline of April 30 for implementing the scheme with regard to the new vehicles and June 15 for old vehicles.
The order came on a PIL by former Youth Congress president Maniderjit Singh Bitta, seeking to make the recommendation of an expert committee set up by the government on the issue. The panel had favoured installation of HSRPs to chek organised crimes for which vhicles with fake number plates were rampantly used.
Mr Bitta, who escaped a deadly attack on his life as Yoth Congress president by Sikh militants in 1993, had floated an Anti-Terror Front and pleaded the top court to enforce the schme as vechiles with fake numbers were used for bomb blasts by terrorists.