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Two militants nabbed in Assam

| | May 09, 2016, at 02:17 am
Guwahati, May 8 (IBNS) : Security forces apprehended two militants and recovered arms and ammunition in two separate operations in Assam on Sunday, officials said.

Based on intelligence input, army and police launched a joint operation at Nagdalbari area in Lower Assam Chirang district and nabbed a militant of a newly floated outfit group.

The nabbed militant was identified as Lakhiram Murmu and he is a local trained cadre of the ADF and was involved in carrying out extortion activities in the area.

One pistol and three live rounds were recovered in possession from him.

In a separate incident, the army and Kokrajhar Police launched a joint operation and apprehended one terrorist of NSLA (AT) from Guruphella village in Kokrajhar district.

The apprehended militant was identified as Junas Mardi alias Joyking Mardi.

“He was an active terrorist of the banned organization and was involved in numerous cases of extortion, money collection and providing administrative support to the banned organization,” an army official said.

A rifle along with one live round was recovered from the militant.

 

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

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