Paresh Barua, chief of Indian separatist group United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) and a death condemned in a 10-truck arms smuggling case in Bangladesh, is now living in China, reports The Times of India.
“Barua's phone call and other recent developments have further cemented inputs that he is living in China's Rui Li town,” the report said on Monday.
According to sources, Barua has been living in the Chinese town, possibly with a woman friend, for the past two years. His wife and two sons live in Bangladesh, it added.
The matter was revealed when Barua made a frantic call from his China hideout in last week which was to one of his key deputies, Jyotirmoy Barali, who looks after an Ulfa camp in Myanmar, sources said.
Earlier, uncertainty over a bag containing several sensitive documents including a phone directory forced Ulfa chief Paresh Barua to give up his telephone silence of several months.
On January 30, the Ulfa chief Barua was sentenced to death in absentia by a Bangladeshi court for a 2004 arms smuggling case.
