3 ultras surrender in Mizoram

AIZAWL, April 1 ? Three ultras have surrendered in Mizoram while the state police have arrested one activist in different parts of the State, reports PTI. Three militants belonging to the Union Territory Demand Army (UTDA) surrendered to the Saiha district superintendent of Police Aloke Kumar on Wednesday, police said Sunday quoting delayed reports reaching from the interiors. In another incident, the leader of Mizoram Farmers Liberation Force (MFLF) was arrested on Tuesday in the state capital, police said. The three surrendered activists of UTDA, which was allegedly involved in looting of guns in the southern part of the State, gave themselves up before the Saitha SP after being persuaded to do so by various political parties and NGOs of the district, police said. The UTDA had been demanding a separate union territory for the erstwhile undivided Chhimtuipui District comprising Lai, Mara and Chakma autonomous district councils. The leader of MFLF, T Vanlalhluta, was arrested on Tuesday, the very day the group called a statewide bandh that evoked no response, according to police. The arrest of the MELF member was also made in the wake of its recent statement that the group had identified the ?17 most corrupt people in the State? and would soon ?show them it is wrong to swindle public money.? While twelve activists of the UTDA had surrendered to the police during mid-March, one activist had been arrested after a recent encounter with the police in which he was injured, police said. The rest three underground members surrendered on Wednesday. The arrested leader of MELF, T Vanlalhluta, reportedly told police during interrogation that his main aim was to fight the evils of corruption in Mizoram and see the state attain self-sufficiency in food production.