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CRPF jawan was our man, says ULFA

GUWAHATI, NOV. 30. The banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has claimed that Samarendra Deka, the CRPF jawan who gunned down seven colleagues before being shot dead near Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, was a member of its military intelligence wing.

A caller, identifying himself as the ULFA's `Commander-in-Chief', Paresh Barua, told a local daily here last night that Deka had been a member of the outfit's military intelligence wing since 1996 and there were more than 150 such members in different security forces.

``Just as the security forces have sneaked their members into our organisation, we are also adopting a similar policy,'' he claimed.

The caller said the killing was carried out on the orders of the outfit.

Deka's body was handed over by the CRPF to his family members at his native village Oubari along the Indo-Bhutan border in Lower Assam's Kamrup district on Monday.

Meanwhile, the CRPF today rubbished the ULFA's claim. ``This is a bogus claim aimed at creating confusion,'' said the CRPF Director-General, J.K. Sinha.

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