Boby Chetri being taken to court on Sunday. Picture by Eastern Projections

Dibrugarh/Guwahati, Dec. 24: The arrested mastermind of the recent blasts in Guwahati has told police that Ulfa’s most potent combat wing, the 28 Battalion, has made inroads into the capital city.

Samiran Baruah, arrested along with accomplices Numal Chetia and Bonti Gogoi at Abhaypur near Sonari town yesterday, revealed today that the 28 Battalion was planning bigger terror attacks than those that rocked the city recently.

A court remanded the trio in police custody for three days. The police had applied for a seven-day remand.

Interrogators confirmed that all three were involved in the recent blasts in Guwahati.

“They were working as a group, staying in various locations in the city — sometimes in small hotels and sometime as tenants in rented houses — they were also regularly in contact with Prabal Neog, the commanding officer of the outfit’s 28 battalion,” a police source said.

The interrogation so far revealed that Baruah has been living in Guwahati for the last two years, while Chetia had been assisting him in Guwahati for the past one year or so. Chetia’s wife Bonti, who was in Myanmar, had come to Guwahati four months ago along with her son. The trio had also admitted of their regular communications with the outfit’s deputy commander in chief Raju Baruah.

In another development, a chief judicial magistrate’s court today remanded Boby Chetri, alias Manisha Sarma, an active member of the Ulfa’s Enigma-B group, to seven days in police custody.

The rebel was arrested from Bhangagarh area in the city on Saturday.