Countdown to death

8226; April 22: Ram8217;s driver Rabiram Basumatary freed near Barpeta

8226; April 25: Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi tells FCI CMD Alok Sinha that Ram will be released safe and unharmed

8226; June 29: Five ULFA cadres arrested from Anandapur in Baksa district bordering Bhutan. Four of them either involved in Ram8217;s abduction or in shifting him from place to place

8226; June 30: Decomposed body dug out from near Anandapur. Ram8217;s housemaid Junu Murmu claims it is his body

8226; July 1: Pravin arrives, identifies body as his father8217;s. Other senior FCI officials also say body is Ram8217;s. Pravin takes body to Ghaziabad. Police say family paid Rs 16 lakh to ULFA

8226; July 2: Body cremated in Delhi

8226; July 3: PM condemns killing. Later, Saraniya tells media over phone that Ram is alive, and would be produced if required

8226; July 4: Pravin asks ULFA to prove his father is alive

8226; July 6: Senior Assam minister Bhumidhar Barman says ULFA commander-in-chief Paresh Barua had conveyed that Ram was alive. Hair and skin samples of body sent for DNA test to Hyderabad. Ram talks to family over phone at 4:15 pm for 15 minutes

8226; July 7: Assam Government orders fresh probe into Ram8217;s abduction and 8220;murder8221;

8226; July 9: Police arrest Dhireswar Dutta, a villager from Anandapur, who claims body was not Ram8217;s but of Sunil Kumar Chauhan, an employee of Army Base Hospital, Guwahati, who was his guest.

8226; July 10: Police confirm body was not Ram8217;s, but says son had legally claimed body as that of his father8217;s. ULFA releases letter written to media by Ram on July 6. Saraniya says police will kill Ram in 8220;encounter8221;. Ram8217;s wife and son meet CM Gogoi in New Delhi.

8226; July 11: Ram killed in 8220;crossfire8221; between security forces and ULFA militants at village Borka-Panitema in Kamrup district, about 30 km from Guwahati in pre-midnight raid