Guwahati: Suspected militants of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) separated Food Corporation of India executive director P.C. Ram from his driver Rabiram Basumatary on the night of April 19, two days after they were abducted from Srinagar here.

Mr. Basumatary revealed this during interrogation by the police after he reached home on Sunday following release by his abductors near lower Assam's Barpeta town.

Mr. Basumtary told interrogators that five youth, armed with small arms, came in a four-wheeler and intercepted Mr. Ram's car when he was nearing his apartment on April 17 night. The abductors were initially conversing in Hindi and English, Mr. Basumtary told the police.

The abductors made both Mr. Ram and the driver wear dark glasses. After driving about an hour and half, during which the driver could make out that they had crossed the Brahmaputra, the abductors made both get down from the car. Then after walking for about two and half hours they reached a village, which Mr. Basumatary said had immigrant settlers.

The next day the abductors told the hostages that they have got orders from the ULFA leadership to separate them. In the evening they were made to walk for nearly two and half hours to reach another village of immigrant settlers. On the morning of April 19 the driver found that Mr. Ram had been taken away. On April 22 afternoon, the militants took the driver on a motorbike after making him wear dark glasses and released him near Barpeta town. He then boarded a bus and reached his residence here on Sunday night.

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