 GUWAHATI: A separatist rebel leader in the northeast Indian state of Assam has been caught using hookers prostitutes to blackmail businessmen and raise funds for the revolt, police said on Tuesday. A police spokesman said the blackmail scheme was discovered in AssamÂ’s main city of Guwahati at the weekend after a top leader of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) was arrested along with two New Delhi-based sisters.
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“This is the latest modus operandi of the ULFA in luring businessmen with the help of call girls and then extorting money from them,” Rajen Singh, a senior police officer in Guwahati said. The arrested ULFA rebel, Ajit Das, is believed to be an explosives expert and was allegedly involved in a number of extortion cases, Singh said, adding that two sisters alleged to be call girls were also arrested.
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“This is the first time we have come across such a tactic by the ULFA for extorting money although they failed due to our timely intervention,” Singh said. An intelligence official, who declined to be named, said the cash-strapped ULFA was looking for new ways to extort money following stepped-up anti-insurgency operations. “We have been able to choke their fund flow and hence the outfit was trying to resort to some clever ploy to trap unsuspecting people using call girls,” the intelligence official said. |