The ATTF is now weakened and its chief Ranjit Debbarma was handed over to India by Bangladesh where he was arrested in January 2013. 

Debbarma , who is standing trial in his home state Tripura on countless charges of murder and abduction, is very close to ULFA military wing chief Paresh Barua who has been awarded a death sentence in the 2004 Chittagong arms cases.

Barua , now absconding, is believed to hiding somewhere around Tengchong in the Sino-Burmese border.

The ULFA and ATTF would smuggle huge quantity of Chinese-made weapons through south-east Asia by sea, land them around Cox's Bazar or Chittagong take them to rebel bases like Satcherri , from where they would be smuggled into India's troubled northeast.

.The ATTF used to keep those they used to abduct for ransom in Satcherri.

Tripura's leading tea planter Yugabrata Chakrabarti died of renal failure in Satcherri's ATTF base when he ran out of medicines following his abduction.

The ATTF asked for 1 million Indian rupees even for returning his dead body to his family.

Indian military intelligence organised some renegade ATTF fighters in 2002 and staged a huge attack on the ATTF Satcherri base .

Several ATTF fighters were killed in that attack.

Following Sheikh Hasina's Awami League coming to power and the crackdown on the Northeastern rebel groups that followed, the ATTF demobilised its Satcherri base but there are reports they used it for moving weapons .