Army-police bust recruitment module of banned KLO in Assam’s Kokrajhar, nab seven militants

Security personnel have also recovered huge cache of arms and ammunition.

After the surrender of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and signing of Bodo Accord, another outfit group Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) has been continuously striving to gain prominence in Lower Assam.

Recently KLO had been undertaking large scale recruitment and on receipt of confirmed input about KLO recruitment module operational in Chakrasila Reserve Forest area in Kokrajhar district, a joint team of Indian army and Kokrajhar district police had jointly launched operation in the area on Thursday evening.

The security forces have busted the KLO recruitment module and apprehended seven KLO militants.

Guwahati based Defence PRO Lt Col P Khongsaid that, the recruitment module was operational since December 2019 and was being run by one Lankeshwar Koch alias Lambu and he was Myanmar trained self styled Area Commander of KLO in Lower Assam, along with four Bangladesh trained and two newly recruited militants.

“Since last about two months, a numbers of operations were launched to apprehend this module which had restricted these militants in contacting local youth for recruitment. The militants were finally caught while they were attending a meeting inside the forest,” the Defence PRO said.

Security personnel have recovered huge quantity of arms and ammunition including 4 factory made pistols and 3 country made pistols from their possession.

(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)