ULFA advisor Bhimkanta Buragohain on Wednesday “denied the involvement” of the banned group in the deadly October 30 blasts in Assam which claimed 84 lives.“ULFA has never been involved in such blasts where so many people have been killed in a single day,” Buragohain told reporters outside a court here.Buragohain claimed that ULFA has no links with jehadis or any other fundamentalist organisations.The senior-most ULFA leader was captured by the Royal Bhutan Army during a crackdown against the group in that country in December 2003 and has been lodged in Tezpur Central Jail after being handed over to Indian Army.The army today deposited in the court of Additional Sessions Judge of Sonitpur M Ziaul Haque ammunitions and cash recovered from Buragohain during the Bhutan operations.The army deposited an AK-56, a pistol, a detonator, a satellite phone, several AK-56 bullets and other ammunition along with over Rs 22 lakh in Indian and some Bhutanese currency.The ULFA had denied its involvement in the blasts on the day of the incident itself and subsequently in its mouthpiece Freedom it denied links with HuJI.Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi had claimed that Bangladesh and Pakistan-based insurgent groups were involved in the blasts while government spokesman Himanta Biswa Sarma had said that jehadi elements with the help of ULFA had carried out the serial attacks.
