27-year-old Kuldeep Moran, son of BJP’s Ratnaswer Moran, was kidnapped by ULFA-I on August 1 from a small town on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. Moran’s father Ratneswar Moran, who is a vice-president of the Zilla Parishad, has some business activities in the Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh that shares boundary with Tinsukia.
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A top police official of Changlang district said that the police team rescued Kuldeep from a cliff in a dense jungle around 10 km from Longvibasti village bordering Myanmar on Friday afternoon.
The kidnap caught media attention when the ULFA-I sent a video to TV news channels here showing Kuldeep Moran surrounded by a group of its armed masked militants and he was heard appealing Assam Chief Minister Sarbanda Sonowal to secure his early release and his family to pay the ransom.
In the video, a first for militant outfits in the Northeast, Kuldeep was seen pleading for his life and urging his parents and the state government to get him released.
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“I have become very weak and my health has also deteriorated”. Ulfa (I) leader Paresh Baruah had said Kuldeep has been not been abducted for ransom, but to stand “trial” for passing on information to the Army, which resulted in the killing of several cadres of the outfit in encounters. “He will be tried in our court and released if found not guilty”, Baruah had said. There is no confirmation whether any ransom was paid.
