Assam Rifles seize 31 AK-47 rifles

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In one of the biggest arms haul in northeast India, paramilitary Assam Rifles recovered 31 AK-47 rifles and other arms and ammunition in Mizoram. The arms were being smuggled to Bangladesh, officials said on Saturday.

Three people were also arrested in connection with the arms recovery near Lengpui airport in Mizoram, bordering Myanmar and Bangladesh.
“Acting on a tip off, the Assam Rifles troopers conducted raids in Mizoram, Nagaland, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh Thursday and recovered a large cache of weapons and ammunition. Ten people were apprehended, including one self-styled commander-in-chief of Dimasa National Liberation Force, a separatist outfit in Assam,” an Assam Rifles official told a news agency.

He said that the state police and central intelligence officials have been interrogating the arrested people, whose identity is being withheld.

Mizoram superintendent of Police, (CID-Crime branch) Joseph Lalchhuana said that 23 AK-47 rifles, a Browning automatic rifle, a light machine gun and a large cache of ammunition being routed from Myanmar to Bangladesh were seized from a small vehicle near Lengpui airport near Aizawl late Thursday night.

Three people, including two residents of Tripura, were arrested along with the arms.

“After they were questioned, eight more AK-47 rifles and a large quantity of ammunition and some explosive materials were seized from a nearby place Friday,” Lalchhuana told reporters at Aizawl.

The apprehended persons were identified as Rabi Chakma, Sobuj Chakma and Moni Tripura. Two of them hailed from northern Tripura.

A team of Tripura police on Saturday left for Aizawl to get details about the arms recovery and arrests.

Four northeastern states – Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Assam – share a 1,880-km border with Bangladesh, while Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh share a 1,640-km unfenced border with Myanmar.

Most parts of the borders are unfenced and running through mountainous terrain and dense forests, making it porous and vulnerable and advantageous to terrorists and cross-border elements.

The India-Bangladesh border is manned by the Border Security Force (BSF) while the India-Myanmar boundaries are guarded by Assam Rifles.

Insurgent outfits in northeast India use jungle routes along the borders to sneak in arms and ammunition with the help of international arms smugglers. There have been instances in the past where security forces have intercepted arms consignments being carried to various separatist outfits of northeast through Mizoram.

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[Sergi]

Great news
Still one has to close the source of weapons than the trafficking party

 

[SURYA-1]

Jamatis seems to have foreign support .Any guesses for the source ???

 

[axisofevil]

Jamatis seems to have foreign support .Any guesses for the source ???

I was thinking the same thing. WHo do you think? CHINA! I told you yrs more than 15 yrs ago, this is a security nightmare and our defence has no f-king clue. Seizing 31 rifles is peanuts. Drug traffickers allow some drug shipments to get caught so that bigger shipments go thru. These groups are running laps around India decades ago and continue to do so

 

[SURYA-1]

I was thinking the same thing. WHo do you think? CHINA! I told you yrs more than 15 yrs ago, this is a security nightmare and our defence has no f-king clue. Seizing 31 rifles is peanuts. Drug traffickers allow some drug shipments to get caught so that bigger shipments go thru. These groups are running laps around India decades ago and continue to do so

I think probably make of these Aks would help in ascertaining the source.Proximity of China to those regions makes them more probable players.

 

[axisofevil]

I think probably make of these Aks would help in ascertaining the source.Proximity of China to those regions makes them more probable players.

Make doesn;t matter much. Even if it is proved conclusively the weapons come from China they will deny. Secure our borders. Cut a width path thru the jungles where our borders and mine it

 

[SURYA-1]

Make doesn;t matter much. Even if it is proved conclusively the weapons come from China they will deny. Secure our borders. Cut a width path thru the jungles where our borders and mine it

If that was so easy task then we woun't have had demographics change in Assam.Lack of will in this spineless government will cost us very dear comming times .

 

[anant_s]

Make doesn;t matter much. Even if it is proved conclusively the weapons come from China they will deny. Secure our borders. Cut a width path thru the jungles where our borders and mine it

 

[axisofevil]

Im aware of the fencing but that is just a small tiny basic step......it has to be comprehensive. This has been an issue spaning decades. Like Surya stated no will on the part of our govt and corruption. A certain chief Minister in one state govt affected dearly by Naxals/maoists is disgustingly corrupt. I know this from first hand business dealings and I know associates that work on his behalf. It doesn;t matter if I report him, the govt wont act upon such info only if its in their interest. Bloody hell.

 

[Ayush]

well done.