This is the first time in the four-and-a-half-decade-long history of terrorism in the northeastern state that a terrorist has been given the capital punishment.

"The division bench of the Agartala bench of the Gauhati High Court comprising justices I.A. Ansari and S.C. Das has Wednesday upheld the capital punishment awarded by the additional district sessions court to an NLFT (National Liberation Front of Tripura) militant Ashok Debbarma, 39," a senior police official told reporters.