6 NLFT insurgents surrender

Six insurgents of outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), who fled from their base camp in Chittagong Hill Tract in neighbouring Bangladesh, have surrendered before police.
Superintendent of Police (Police Control), Uttam Bhowmick, said the ultras led by self-styled lieutenant, Ganthachran Rupini surrendered before DSP, Ranabir Debbarma, at Bhandarima, a remote tribal hamlet in North Tripura district, yesterday.
They deposited two wireless sets during surrender.
The insurgents told interrogators that the outfit was facing financial difficulties.
Besides, frequent raids by Bangladeshi security forces in their camps are making it difficult for the outfit to use the foreign soil, Bhowmick said.

The NLFT was formed in 1989 to establish independent Tripura but it was weakened over the years due to splits and raids by security forces in both India and neighbouring Bangladesh where they had set up a number of camps.