Mohit Hojai, a senior political leader of Assam hill areas and chief executive officer of North Cachar Hills Autonomous District Council, and Assam Social Welfare Department Joint Director R H Khan were arrested by police on Saturday for allegedly having links with insurgents.
A high-level source informed that Hojai and Khan were picked up by Assam Police from their residences and are being interrogated in Guwahati.
Police has been on the look out for Hojai following the arrest of a Public Health Engineering department contractor Phojen Hojai and another ASDC leader Babul Kemprai on April 1 last with Rs 1 crore in their possession. They were arrested from Byrnihat area from Meghalaya.
The arrested contractor confessed before the police that the money he was carrying
was provided by NCHADC chief executive member Mohit Hojai for making payment for a consignment of weapons to be procured by a militant group.
Meanwhile, in a fresh incident of violence in the North Cachar Hill district, one Dimasa tribe elder Bhadra Langthasa was killed and one Murli Biswas (42) an autorickshaw driver was injured. They were shot at by suspected Naga rebels while travelling from Jorabasti village to Haflong town.
The latest spell of ethnic violence triggered by militants from Dimasa and Naga tribes has so far claimed 25 lives and injured 18 persons while hundreds of houses in different villages were burnt to ashes.
About 1700 violence-affected people from Dimasa and Zeme Naga tribe are taking shelter in six relief camps set up in the hill district.
