A court here yesterday sentenced United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) leader Ranjan Chowdhury and his Bangladeshi aide Pradip Marak to life term imprisonment in two cases for arms and terrorism.

District and Sessions Judge Mahbub Ul Islam pronounced the verdict in presence of the convicts. The court also fined the lifers Tk 20,000 each. 

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-9) had arrested Ranjan Chowdhury alias Major Ranjan, 46, former general secretary of Dhubra district unit of Ulfa, and his Bangladeshi aide Pradip Marak, 57, of Bakura village in Jhinaigati upazila of Sherpur district, from Bhraib upazila in Kishoreganj district on July 17, 2010.

The elite force also recovered two pistols, four bullets, four handmade bombs and some bomb making materials from Ranjan's hideout at Laxmipur village in Bhairab upazila.

Rab filed four separate cases, including those for intrusion, terrorism, and keeping arms and explosives, against the duo with the Bhairab Police Station.