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Kuki outfit’s top leader nabbed, camp busted in Karbi Anglong

| @indiablooms | Sep 19, 2017, at 01:29 am
Guwahati, Sept 18 (IBNS) : Security forces have busted a camp of a Kuki group and apprehended a top leader of the outfit in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district on Sunday, officials said on Monday.

Based on specific actionable intelligence on presence of a top functionary of the banned terror group Kuki Liberation Front, a jointly operation was launched by the Army troops of the Red Horn Division under the Gajraj Corps with Assam police at Sukhanjan village in the hill district.

“The operation was based on sound military planning and seamless coordination with the Assam police and it yielded results, contact was established and the hiding KLF militant was apprehended. On interrogation it was found that he is Lummilen Bey, the Publicity Secretary of Kuki Liberation Front and he is wanted in a number of cases. A Pistol of foreign make and ammunition was recovered in possession of the apprehended terrorist. On further interrogation of the individual it was revealed that there is a camp in the vicinity in general area Mulhoi Village, which was being used by the members of the terrorist outfit as a hideout,” a top army official said.  

Following the input, army troops, along with the Assam Police, launched an operation without wasting any time to capitalize on the lead they had received.

On arrival at the site, the party found an abandoned camp comprising of some huts, from where a country made rifle, rations and other survival stores were recovered.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

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