Three Kathmandu-bound UNLF militants arrested from IGI airport

New Delhi, Oct 4 (UNI) Police have arrested three United National Liberation Front (UNLF) militants from the Indira Gandhi International Airport here while trying to board a Kathmandu-bound 'Indian' flight.

Jayanta Kumar Singh alias Moiranganthem Milan Singh (44), P Ghanshyam Singh alias R K Romeo Singh (45) -- both officials of the Lt Colonel rank in the outlawed Manipur outfit, and T Shyam Kumar Singh (39) -- a forest contractor-cum-social worker-cum-politician, were arrested on October 2 afternoon, Joint Commissioner (Special Cell) Karnal Singh told mediapersons today.

Just three days earlier four cadres of the outlawed outfit were arrested in Manipur.

''We had information that two UNLF members would be coming to Delhi but on reaching the airport three of them were being offloaded for not possessing proper documents. They were arrested while they came out of Gate No 1 of the airport.'' A pen drive and a compact disc with an hour-long video recording, containing details of the deployment of the Army and para-military forces in Manipur, details of the outfit, its cadre, arms, ammunition and explosives stock besides details of their training camps, its strength and deployment in the state were seized from their possession, said Mr Singh.

''They disclosed, during interrogation, that their outfit which had a strength of 2,000 and was paid as per their rank, was involved in waging a war against the State.'' ''The three had come to Delhi from Manipur on October 1 and stayed at a Karol Bagh hotel under fake names. The next day they were to board a flight to Kathmandu, where a meeting of the outfit was to be held under the chairmanship of Raj Kumar Meghen (presently in Dhaka, Bangladesh), when they were arrested.'' The Manipur Police has been informed and coordinated efforts are afoot for the next step to dig out more information and carry out further arrests, he added.

Mr Singh, however, said it was yet not clear whether they were in Delhi to set up a base. ''This information was still being extracted besides the source of their outfit's funding.'' Jayanta, a class XII dropout, had earlier been arrested under the National Security Act (NSA).

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