NEW DELHI, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- India's federal government has extended the ban on a separatist group National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) operating in its northeastern state of Assam for five years, state-run broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) said Sunday.
"Center has extended the ban on National Democratic Front of Bodoland along with all its groups, factions and front organisations by five more years," AIR said.
The group was involved in the killing of 19 civilians in incidents of violence since January 2015, said the broadcaster quoting a notification from the federal home ministry said.
"They were also involved in 62 violent incidents since 2015 in which 55 extremists have been killed and 450 arrested," AIR quoting the home ministry said.
NDFB is an armed separatist outfit striving for a separate Bodoland for the Bodo people, an ethnolinguistic group in the Indian state of Assam.
