Dwipamani Kalita
Dwipamani Kalita is the first ULFA hit-woman of the outfit. She was responsible for all the mortar attacks executed during 2002–2003 in Assam. She joined the outfit in 1998. As she told to police, though she was an expert in mortar shelling, she was used to RPGs. Her accomplices were Dilip Roy and Pranoy Roy who formed a three-member elite group.
Family background
Dwipamani hails from Jabjabkuchi village under Ghagrapar PS in Nalbari. Her father Karuna Kalita died while she was an infant forcing her to live with her step-mother. According to DGP Harekrishna Deka, she was a victim of social ostracism and trauma which made a militant out of her. She was separated from her mother at a very young age and saw her father killed by the villagers. Her elder brother was also killed in an accident. Being unable to bear the atrocities of her step-mother she joined the outfit in 1998 through one Minati Kalita, and ULFA activist Manoj Goswami of Nalbari.Education
She was a brilliant student and excelled in her HSLC and HS examinations securing letter marks. She passed the HSLC examination in 1996 with letter marks in Mathematics and Advanced Mathematics and the Higher Secondary examination in 1998 in first division with letter marks in Logic. Although a very bright student she was said to be deprived of any support from her family and friends.Training
Dwipamani was exclusively trained in Misnupur, Bangladesh in the Enigma ‘B’ camp for four months where she met Paresh Barua for the first time. After the completion of her training, she was taken to an official firing range, blindfolded by the ULFA’s foreign associates. Then she was inducted into the outfit’s Enigma Group which is responsible for carrying out violent strikes.Mission
After having completed her training, she was despatched to Guwahati. She was told to lead a normal life to deflect any suspicion even as she carried out the attacks. She even reportedly purchased a plot and constructed a house on the outskirts of Guwahati. ‘‘Unlike the other ULFA cadre, she travelled by public transport and did not carry any cellphone or call up the leadership from Guwahati after she was sent out on these missions. Her most potent weapon was her complete anonymity and secrecy,’’ IGP Khagen Sharma said. She reportedly travelled with two-inch-long mortars in city buses.Major Attacks
The operations were masterminded in Bangladesh by C-in-C Paresh Baruah, deputy C-in-C Raju Baruah, Drishti Rajkhowa and Ramu Gogoi and the trio were assigned for the job.- On 27 October 2002, she fired a mortar which landed and exploded in the Dispur Capital residential complex. Two government and a private vehicle were damaged, however, no one was injured. The mortar was fired from behind the Dispur Law College.
- On 22 December 2002, she tried to blow up the CRPF transit camp in the city but failed.
- On 25 December 2002, she fired six mortars in quick succession near Ambari. 21 persons sustained splinter injuries, of which three later died.