{"id":416691,"date":"2021-05-24T11:46:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T06:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=416691"},"modified":"2021-05-24T12:58:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T07:28:40","slug":"ongc-staffer-released-by-ulfa-couldnt-tell-night-from-day-spent-agonising-hours-thinking-about-my-sons-laugh-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ongc-staffer-released-by-ulfa-couldnt-tell-night-from-day-spent-agonising-hours-thinking-about-my-sons-laugh-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"ONGC staffer released by ULFA: \u2018Couldn\u2019t tell night from day\u2026 spent agonising hours thinking about my son\u2019s laugh, parents\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like the countless night shifts he had worked since he joined the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) as a production engineer, the night of April 20 started out no different. But by the end of it, 38-year-old Retul Saikia was led out of his workplace of five years in handcuffs, shoved into a vehicle and driven off into the night by armed militants of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent) (ULFA-I).<\/p>\n<p>A month later, on Saturday morning, Saikia was released by the militants at Longwa, in Nagaland\u2019s Mon district, near India-Myanmar border, and handed over to a team of Assam Police, Nagaland Police and the Assam Rifles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can only be grateful,\u201d Saikia told The Indian Express from his home in Borholla, Jorhat, adding: \u201cI never thought I would see them but I am finally back with my family\u2026my old parents, my little son.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the countless night shifts he had worked since he joined the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) as a production engineer, the night of April 20 started out no different. But by the end of it, 38-year-old Retul Saikia was led out of his workplace of five years in handcuffs, shoved into a vehicle and driven off into the night by armed militants of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent) (ULFA-I). A month later, on Saturday morning, Saikia was released by the militants at Longwa, in Nagaland\u2019s Mon district, near India-Myanmar border, and handed over to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}