Meghalaya militant group uses minors to smuggle arms
On Aug 28, a joint team of the Assam police and the Meghalaya police had nabbed five ANCA militants at Boko area of Kamrup (Rural) district along Assam-Meghalaya border.
Among the nabbed militants, Amar Sangma alias Amar Thapa, a hardcore cadre of the group revealed that their self-styled chairman William A Sangma had recently sent a minor boy to procure arms from Dimapur.
“William A Sangma sent a 14-year old boy Mankanson W Sangma along with another hardcore cadre Elwart M Sangma to Dimapur of Nagaland for procuring arms,” a top police official said.
Amar Sangma revealed during police interrogation that, the group used minors to smuggle arms and spreading terror in West Garo Hills of Meghalaya.
“It is easier to get bail for minors, when they had arrested,” Amar Sangma revealed during interrogation.
Recently, Mankanson W Sangma and Elwart M Sangma were apprehended with arms by the Assam police from Guwahati railway station when they had came from Dimapur.
The police recovered two point 32 pistols, 10 rounds of live ammunition in possession of them at Guwahati railway station.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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