The outlawed Ulfa here on Saturday threatened to blow up transmission towers of mobile companies who are alleged to have been sharing call records of their sympathisers with security agencies in Assam. In a statement sent on email to this newspaper, the Ulfa spokesman alleged that the Army and the police on the basis of call details given by mobile companies, are arresting all those people with whom they contacted on their mobile.
Warning the mobile companies to desist from giving any call details to the security forces, the Ulfa spokesman argued that they are also human beings and have every right to talk to their near and dear ones.
Describing it as a repressive step of the security agency, the outfit clarified that their cadres are not calling their family members for any subversive act but to know about their respective families.
However, security sources claimed that the statement of the Ulfa came close on the heels of the police picking up Amarjyoti Baruah, cousin of elusive Ulfa chief Paresh Baruah, on Thursday from his residence in Upper Assam’s Tinsukia district.
Informing that Mr Amarjyoti Baruah was chargesheeted by the CBI in murder of then Tinsukia SP R.K. Singh in 1996, security sources said that the cousin of the Ulfa chief was in touch with Ulfa leader Jeevan Moran and suspected to have been helping the outfit.
The police picked up Mr Amarjyoti Baruah for questioning but he was released in the morning.
It is significant that the security forces have been tracking the calls of mobile numbers used by militant outfits to foil their violent acts. Security sources admitted that they have been keeping close watch on some selected mobile numbers used by militant leaders.