Kaberi Kachari is a writer, poet, political and economical speaker and the wife of Arabinda Rajkhowa, the chairman of the peace talks process outfit called the United Liberation Front of Assam ULFA.[1][2] She was known for her poetic excellence from her college days.[3][4]
Personal life
In the late 80s, when she was a student at the Gauhati University, she married Arabinda Rajkhowa. They had to spend the initial days of their marriage in jungles of Assam and Bhutan.[4] They have two children Khamseng Rajkumari (Daughter) and Gadadhar (Son).[1][4]
Arrest
She, along with her husband Rajkhowa, deputy C-in-C Raju Baruah and Rajkhowa's bodyguard Raja Bora were said to be surrendered to the BSF on 4 Dec 2009 morning near the Indo-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya.[2] She was not produced in court for no pending cases were there against her.[2] She and the other women along with their minors are housed in the 4th Assam Police Battalion's guesthouse in Guwahati.[1]
Family custody
Rajkhowa's elder brother Ajay Rajkonwar reportedly told that he wants to take custody of his brother's family so that their 97-year-old mother could meet them. "We are ready to take custody of Kaveri and the two children -- 13-year-old daughter and five-year old son -- and take them to our mother at Lakwa in Sibsagar. If Kaveri wants to stay back for the outfit's organisational work, we have nothing to say," he said to reporters.[5]