Gorlosa (40) was picked up by a team of Assam Police, led by DIG G P Singh, after he was tracked all the way from Nepal. Two others, Partha Warisa, self-styled Black Widow deputy C-in-C, and Samir Rahman, a businessman, were also arrested along with Gorlosa.
Claiming to represent the Dimasa tribe, the DHD(J) has been fighting for a separate state to be carved out of parts of Assam and Nagaland.
“We have been tracking Gorlosa from Nepal where he spent some time trying in vain to procure a passport to fly out of India. He moved to Bangalore with the same intention of procuring documents to get a passport. But our team managed to catch him,” Assam DGP G M Srivastava said.
Meanwhile, the police on Thursday gunned down Frankie Dimasa, self-styled foreign secretary of DHD(J) in a pre-dawn encounter at Borbari, a locality in Guwahati. Frankie, who was earlier arrested in March 2008, had escaped from Haflong jail in December along with another top leader Daniel Dimasa.
The arrest of Gorlosa comes close on the heels of the arrest of Mohet Hojai, chief executive member of the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council, on May 30 for allegedly providing Rs 1 crore in cash to the Black Widow to procure arms. Hojai’s case has been taken over by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) with its chief R V Raju arriving in Guwahati on Thursday to look into the alleged politician-militant nexus in the NC Hills.