On June 4, the Dima Halam Daogah-Jewel Gorlosa received a major setback as the chairman of the outfit Jewel Gorlosa was arrested by a joint team of Assam and Karnataka Police in Bengaluru. Two of his aides were also arrested were also arrested. Police sources said that the arrest of Jewel Gorlosa would be a major blow for the outfit1.

Unidentified gunmen killed five persons and also burnt down at least 54 houses in Assam’s NC Hills district on June 32.

• 1. “Dima Halam Daogah(J) chief Garlosa held in Bengaluru”, Assam Tribune, June 5, 2009, at http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=jun0509/at01
• 2. “5 killed, 54 houses burnt in NC Hills”, Assam Tribune, June 4, 2009, at http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=jun0409/at02