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GUWAHATI: Family members of a tea garden employee in Tinsukia district of Assam , who was abducted by banned Ulfa (Independent) on June 8, on Tuesday offered ‘prayers’ to the outfit’s leader Paresh Baruah’s portrait seeking his immediate release from captivity.The 52-year-old supervisor of Phaneng tea garden a Jagun, a private garden, Dinanath Upadhyaya was abducted by a group of five motorcycle-borne Ulfa(I) militants. Assam Police additional director general (special branch) Pallab Bhattacharya said that from the video it appears that Upadhya has been taken to Myanmar in the base of Ulfa(I). Upadhyaya in the video is seen saying that he has been abducted by Ulfa(I) for passing on information on movements of its cadres and that of NSCN (Khaplang) to his employer and Margherita MLA. We are poor people and have nothing to do with anyone. On June 16, Ulfa(I) released a video where Upadhyaya was appealing to his employer Radha Chetia and Margherita BJP legislator Bhaskar Sharma to secure his release.A member of Upadhyaya’s family said, “For us Paresh Baruah is God and we are praying before him to release him (Dinanath) immediately..