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Guwahati, March 22 : Aftet 16 days of the Silapathar incident, Assam police finally caught the prime accused of the All Assam Students Union (AASU) office attack in the northern Assam district Subodh Biswas from a bordering village along with West Bengal-Bangladesh on Wednesday wee hours.
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Assam police led by ADGP Mukesh Agarwala had arrested Subodh Biswas, National president of Nikhil Bharat Bangali Udbastu Samanvay Samiti (NIBBUSS) from Bijoynagar area, two kilometers away from Bangladesh border in North 24 Parganas district at around 4-30 am on Wednesday.
The sleuths of Assam police had also an associate of Subodh Biswas identified as Subhash Biswas from the area.
Assam police ADGP Pallav Bhattacharya said that, following intelligence input, the sleuths of Assam police with support of West Bengal Police had launched operation at the bordering area and arrested the Most wanted person of Assam police.
"Subodh Biswas had took shelter at a house of Krishna Biswas, a retired teacher since last three days," the top cops said.
Assam police had earlier declared the NIBBUSS president and prime accused of the AASU office attack in Silapathar as Most Wanted and announced a cash bounty of Rs 1 lakh, who to provide information about Subodh Biswas.
On the other hand, Assam police Director General Mukesh Sahay said that, Subodh Biswas and his associate had managed to flee from Silapathar to Dibrugarh and left to West Bengal by train.
"Following the AASU office attack incident, police has arrested over 50 persons in connection with the incident. A case (67/2017) was registered against Subodh Biswas under section 147/148/149/448/325/307/427/153(A) of IPC. Investigation is ongoing and no one will be excused who involved in the incident," Mukesh Sahay said.
Meanwhile, Subodh Biswas and his associate have produced before the district court at Bongaon and Assam police would likely to seek them in transit remand.
Earlier, the Assam police team had carried out operations in search of the most wanted person in New Delhi, Tripura, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Andaman, Arunachal Pradesh.
The archivists of NIBBUSS led by Subodh Biswas had vandalised a local office of AASU in Silapathar in northern Assam's Dhemaji district on March 6 last.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
