Guwahati: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) could not find any immovable or movable property owned by Ulfa (Independent) leaders Paresh Barua and Abhizeet Asom in Assam.
An official source said the agency informed the special NIA court here recently that it did not find any movable or immovable property of the two accused, owing to which the order to attach properties of the duo could not be served.
The court had declared the two top leaders of the Ulfa's anti-talks faction as absconders and had ordered attachment of their properties as they failed to turn up in court to stand trial in a case registered by the NIA.
The NIA court had also issued non-bailable arrest warrants against the duo in July but the agency told the court that these could not be executed as they could not be traced.
The NIA teams had visited the ancestral homes of Barua and Asom in Dibrugarh and Nagaon districts respectively to inquire about their whereabouts but family members could not provide any information.
According to NIA sources, Paresh Barua alias Paresh Asom has been living in Myanmar and Abhizeet Asom alias Mukul Hazarika in the UK.
The NIA had registered a suo motu case at its Guwahati branch in 2013 in connection with the outfit's subversive activities and filed a chargesheet against Barua, Asom and a self-styled second lieutenant Gagan Hazarika alias Joydeep Cheleng on July 15.
Gagan, who was arrested from Upper Assam's Charaideo district in January, is in judicial custody.
The agency said it had collected sufficient materials, technical and circumstantial evidence, against the accused persons during the course of investigation and established their involvement in anti-India activities.
The chargesheet was filed against Barua under Sections 17, 18, 18A, 18B and 20 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, and Sections 121A (conspiring to wage war on the state and to overawe it by criminal force), 124A (sedition), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 385 (extortion) of the IPC. Asom was charged under Sections 18, 18A, 18B and 20 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Sections 121A and 124A of the IPC.
