A joint team of police and the army on Thursday shot dead a United Liberation Front of Assam militant, Pranjal Deka alias Biju Sarania who was alleged prime suspect behind the
January 1 serial blasts in Guwahati, in an encounter at Halikuchi in Rangiya sub-division of Kamrup district.
A top official in Assam Police informed that two ULFA militants were engaged in an encounter by a joint team of the army and police at Halikuchi on the bank of a river in Rangiya sub-division of Kamrup district on Thursday afternoon.
Pranjal Deka was killed in the exchange