The National Investigation Agency (NIA), in collaboration with Assam Police, has arrested a key operative of the banned militant outfit ULFA(I) for planting Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Guwahati during this year’s Independence Day celebrations.
As part of the ongoing ‘Operation Crackdown’, security forces apprehended two more suspected ULFA(I) linkmen in Upper Assam on Tuesday along with recovery of IEDs from multiple locations.
The overall tally of arrested operatives of ULFA(I) in ongoing operation named ‘Operation Crackdown’ has reached 16 people with two more nabbed in the latest operation on Monday.
In a major blow to insurgent network in Upper Assam, Indian Army and Assam Police apprehended multiple ULFA(I) Overground Workers (OGWs) and linkmen in a joint operation on Friday.
Assam Rifles troopers apprehended a youth from Nagaland Mon district who was on his way to Myanmar to join the banned militant organisation United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I).
Assam DGP, G P Singh, who embarked on a two-day visit of Barak Valley's three district beginning Monday in Silchar, said, “I have been getting threats from militant organizations not just Assam but from other states too.”
