Judiciary to decide cases faced by militants involved in talks

The Assam government today said it will not interfere in judicial matters of cases involving leaders and cadres of militant groups engaged in peace talks.
Minister for Panchayat and Rural Development Rockybul Hussain told the Assembly that while the state government gave full support to talks between the Centre and militant groups, it was up to the judiciary to decide bail pleas and related issues of arrested militants.
On the peace talks between the Ranjan Daimary faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland and the Centre, Hussain said that the central government's interlocutor P C Haldar had held several rounds of talks with Daimary, who is lodged in Guwahati Central Jail.

"NDRF(R) had in August 2011 declared unilateral ceasefire and so the Centre entrusted Haldar to play the role of interlocutor. We have given our support to the talks," he said.
Hussain said that the CBI was investigating the October 2008 serial blasts in various parts of Assam, in which Daimary is an accused.
Earlier during zero hour, All India United Democratic Front member Sherman Ali Ahmed said that militant leaders who were holding peace talks should not be treated like VIPs.