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NDFB(S) 'commander', his bodyguard arrested | Zee News

Kajalgaon: A self-styled commander of NDFB(S) and his personal bodyguard were arrested from Assam's Chirang district, police said.

Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of police and army launched an operation in Morabari jungle in the district and arrested the duo.

The NDFB(S) commander has been identified as Rabi Basumatary alias Rongabaja and his personal bodyguard as Jwnglaw Narzary alias Jekhai, BTAD IGP LR Bishnoi said.

An AK-56 rifle, 170 rounds of AK ammunitions, 50 rounds of INSAS ammunitions and four hand grenades were seized from their possession.

Basumatary was allegedly involved in the killing of the then inspector-in-charge of Rupsi outpost in Kokrajhar district, Narayan Barman, on September 26, 2013.

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NDFB(S) militant involved in Baksa killing nabbed | Zee News

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 14:41

Guwahati: A militant of NDFB (Songbijit) faction allegedly involved in the killing of minority community people at Baksa last year was apprehended with arms and ammunition from Chirang district in Assam on Wednesday.

Acting on intelligence information, a joint team of police from Chirang district and 7 Sikh LI Camp at Runikhata conducted an operation and nabbed Udaychal Daimary alias Udangsa, the self-styled 'deputy commander'of the militant outfit, from Aie Powali under Runikhata PS, IGP L R Bishnoi told PTI.

The insurgent, who hailed from Salbari in Baksa, is a cadre of the 31 batch of NDFB(S) trained in Myanmar.

A 7.65 pistol with five rounds and two grenades were recovered from him, Bishnoi said.

Daimary along with other heavily armed NDFB(S) militants was involved in the unleashing of violence in Baksa district falling under Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) killing 11 people of the minority community in May 2014, he said.

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Twin blasts in Manipur, narrow escape for BSF personnel - The Economic Times
By PTI | 6 Oct, 2015, 09.35PM IST


IMPHAL: A group of BSF personnel had a narrow escape in Manipur when two bombs exploded in Imphal East district just after the securitymen crossed the spot where the explosives were planted, the police said.

The incident occurred when the BSF personnel were patrolling on foot along Imphal-Maphou Road under Lamlai police station at about 6.10 AM.

The bombs exploded after the securitymen crossed the spot and no one was injured, police said.

The bombs were planted at a gap of 30 metres by unknown militants.

 

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NSCN (I-M) could have set up a training camp in Manipur and recruited cadres, it is suspected.


Updated: October 7, 2015 00:19 IST
Security agencies suspect NSCN (I-M) is regrouping - The Hindu

Reports of extortion, arms and drugs smuggling have registered a rising trend
A series of developments in the north-east, especially in Manipur, since the August peace accord between the Centre and the Naga rebel group NSCN (I-M), have raised serious concern that the security situation in the region could dramatically worsen in the coming months.

Dim is the assessment from sources in the military and other security agencies about developments in Manipur, where the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagalim (I-M) has probably set up a training camp, has already recruited a few hundred new cadres, and is contributing to possible new flare-up of inter-tribe tensions in the fragile State.

Extortion, smuggling

Sources said inputs show that since the August 3 peace accord, signed in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his official residence, reports of extortion, arms and drugs smuggling have registered a rising trend in Manipur. “Most of it is being done by I-M cadres,” a senior official said.

A couple of sources said they believe the outfit has already set up new camps in the hills of Manipur to accommodate fresh cadres recruited since the peace accord. One official said about 400 Nagas may have been recruited by the NSCN (I-M) since the accord. There were reports last month of the group recruiting new cadre from parts of eastern Nagaland.

“Various temptations are being offered, among them that the I-M cadres would get absorbed into the Indian military or paramilitary in the future,” one senior military officer said.

The NSCN (I-M) is believed to have had about 2,500 cadres before the peace accord. The insurgent group could be targeting recruitment of another 1000 cadres, mostly from Manipur, he said.

“Their parallel government is running well in Nagaland. Now they are trying to build on their influence in the Manipur hills. That is dangerous,” one official pointed out. He said this would add to the tension between the hill tribes and the Meitheis, who reside in the valley.

Officials said Manipur could slip back into violence if the government failed to take steps to ensure that NSCN (I-M) does not exploit the legitimacy gained out of their peace accord to expand operations in Manipur.

“There are historical reasons for tensions between Meitheis and hill tribes. Now they are adding fuel to the fire,” one senior official said. From privileges enjoyed by the hill tribes to land shortage in the crowded valley, all have contributed to flare-up of tensions in Manipur.

The official warned that the NSCN (I-M)’s flexing of muscles could also unite the various Manipuri militant groups. And these groups could enjoy tacit support from the NSCN (K), which has been sidelined in the new strategy and has been lying low. Informed sources have also expressed concerns over similar trouble in Tirap and Changland districts of Arunachal Pradesh because of their strategic location and influence of the Naga rebel groups.

 

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Kidnapped Hyderabad engineer rescued in Meghalaya | Zee News

Shillong: A kidnapped engineer of a Hyderabad-based road construction company in Meghalaya was rescued on Wednesday after a gunfight with his abductors in West Garo Hills district, police said.


Wassem Ahmed, an assistant engineer of BSC-C&C (JV) road construction company, was abducted at gun-point nine days ago by United Garo Security Force (UGSF) militants from Samanda-Jengjal junction in East Garo Hills district.

Ahmed, 25, who is from Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir, is involved in the construction of Shillong-Nongstoin-Williamnagar-Tura highway.

"We rescued Ahmed on Wednesday evening from Gabil area after an exchange of fire with his abductors," Inspector General of Police G.H.P. Raju, operations in-charge, told IANS.

He said the abductors left Ahmed after security forces retaliated.

"We do not know if any of the abductors were injured during the exchange of fire, but a manhunt is on to nab them as we have got some lead on their identities," Raju said.

Meghalaya Police have launched a coordinated rescue operation for the last five days to mount pressure on the UGSF militants to release Ahmed, which also led to the arrest of six UGSF militants.

Meanwhile, police remained clueless about the whereabouts of an Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer abducted by suspected Garo militants in Meghalaya's South Garo Hills district, bordering Bangladesh.

On September 24, militants of the A'chik Songna An'pachakgipa Kotok (ASAK) outfit kidnapped Intelligence Bureau officer Bikash Singh and cloth merchant Kamal Saha at gunpoint from an area between Ampangre and Panda reserve forest, police said.

Though, ASAK has denied its involvement in the kidnapping, police maintained that the needle of suspicion was particularly on the group.

"There is no development in this case. We have no clue at all about their whereabouts but the operation is on to trace and rescue the abducted officer and the other person," Raju said.


IANS

 

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NSCN-K camp destroyed by Myanmar security forces | Zee News

New Delhi: India on Tuesday claimed that a camp allegedly belonging to NSCN-K, a banned Naga insurgent group responsible for killing of 18 Army soldiers in Manipur in June, was demolished along the Indo-Myanmar border by the Myanmarese security forces last weekend.

The camp, located at Myanmarese village Monlei, across Tuensang in Nagaland, was completely destroyed by the Myanmarese Army, official sources quoted reports from Myanmar as saying.

The camp was located in the same area where Indian Army carried out operations against NSCN-K during which top government officials had claimed loss to the group. However, there was no clarity on the casuality in that operation and the NSCN-K had claimed that no operation had been carried out inside the Myanmarese territory.

The camp was located just across the Indo-Myanmar border and perhaps the authorities in that country did not want such camps to continue near the border, the sources said, explaining the reason for Myanmarese forces destroying the camp.

The NSCN-K, which abrogated ceasefire with the government in March, has been involved in a series of attacks on security forces in recent past.

The government declared NSCN-K a banned outfit last month.

In a pre-dawn cross-border operation in June, elite commandos of the Indian Army in coordination with the Air Force went a few kilometres inside Myanmarese territory to destroy two camps of insurgents hiding there after attacks in Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh by suspected NSCN-K and KYKL outfits.

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Prohibitory orders along Manipur-Myanmar border - The Hindu

The border with Chandel, another border district, is also covered by this prohibitory night order effective from 6 pm till 4 am.

The Manipur government has clamped prohibitory orders during the night along a 3 km belt within India, along Myanmar and the Ukhrul district.

The order issued by the district magistrate of Ukhrul on Monday says that the border with Chandel, another border district, is also covered by this prohibitory night order effective from 6 pm till 4 am.

Official explanation is that miscreants have been crossing the international border through the Ukhrul district, carrying firearms and other contraband goods. Nobody is allowed to travel in the prohibited areas during the specified period. Hunters and fishermen also cannot move around. Those persons who have to travel on unavoidable circumstances should seek permission from the Army and the Assam Rifles who are manning the border areas.

Following the report in The Hindu on the recruitment of cadres by the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) after signing the framework accord on August 3, local media has been highlighting further developments.

The latest reports said that the NSCN(IM) is recruiting cadres even in the heart of Imphal, the State capital.

The NSCN(IM) had signed ceasefire with the Indian government on June 25, 1997. Intelligence officials suspect that new recruits are taken out to the camps in the no man's land and the prohibitory orders were clamped to check the movements.

The authorities had started construction of the 10 km long border fence at Moreh in Chandel district. Intelligence sources said that there is free movement of insurgents, with recruits taking advantage of the legalised border trade. Since thousands of people cross the border everyday ostensibly to buy foreign goods, many rebels could jostle with them by masquerading as traders and get lost in the no man's land.

 

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Night curfew along Indo-Myanmar border in Manipur | Zee News
Imphal: Night curfew has been imposed along 380 Km Indo-Myanmar border in Ukhrul, Chandel and Churachandpur districts in Manipur for six months following a request made by Indian Army and Assam Rifles authorities.

The magistrates of the three districts issued separate orders in their respective districts prohibiting movement of any person within 3 km belt from the international border, government officials said.

The curfew would be in force from 5 pm to 5 am, the officials said.

Army and Assam Rifles deployed along the international border in Manipur are maintaing strict vigil to check night movement, they said.

Myanmar government had signed the ceasefire accord with eight out of 15 ethnic armed groups involved in the peace deal on Thursday, signalling an end to nearly six decades of civil conflict in that country. The impact of the ceasefire in Myanmar might have effect on the porous Indian border, the sources said.

PTI

 

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Huge cache of arms and ammunition seized in Mizoram | Zee News

Aizawl: Assam Rifles' troopers seized eight sophisticated assault rifles and twelve loaded magazines in Mizoram, police said here on Saturday.

Police suspect that the arms and ammunition might have been smuggled from neighbouring Myanmar.

"Acting on a tip-off, the Assam Rifles' jawans while carrying out the raid between Keitum and Khawlailung villages in Serchhip district seized the arms and ammunition from two Mizo men early Friday. Both were arrested," district police chief Lalringdika told reporters.

The border villages are around 120 km south of state capital Aizawl.

The arms and ammunition include five AK-47s, three AK-56s and twelve magazines loaded with AK series rifles' cartridges.

Senior police and intelligence officials are interrogating the smugglers - Hmingchunga, 55, and Vanpuilala, 30.

This is the second big seizure of arms by the Assam Rifles in six months. Earlier, they confiscated eight US-made M4 rifles in Champhai district near the Myanmar border.

Mizoram, which shares a 510 km border with Myanmar and a 318 km frontier with Bangladesh, has become a corridor for arms' smuggling.

Assam Rifles' troopers are posted along the 1,643 km India-Myanmar border with Arunachal Pradesh accounting for 520 km, Manipur (398 km), Nagaland (215 km) and Mizoram (510 km).

 

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Bodies of kidnapped IB officer, trader found after a month
Shillong, Oct 25, 2015, (PTI)

Bodies of young Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Bikash Singh and a trader, who were kidnapped by insurgents in Meghalaya's South Garo Hills district a month ago, were found buried in a jungle.

"We have recovered body of the IB officer and that of the trader yesterday from a shallow grave in a forested area in Bolchugre," South Garo Hills SP Lakador Syiem said.

They were killed a day after their abduction on September 24 and the bodies were moderately decomposed, he said.

Family members of the victims have identified the bodies as those of Singh and cloth merchant Kamal Saha, Syiem said.

The two were kidnapped at gunpoint by members of the A'chik Songna An'pachakgipa Kotok (ASAK) militant outfit on September 24 from a place between Ampangre and Panda reserve forest in the district. ASAK is a breakaway faction of Achik National Volunteer Council (ANVC).

The SP said the breakthrough came after police arrested and interrogated Sengran Shira, the brother of ASAK commander Sengbat Shira, who led them to the site where the duo were killed.

The bodies were handed over to the respective families after postmortem.

 

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Assam Rifles JCO killed in ambush in Manipur - The Hindu

Updated: October 27, 2015 05:40 IST

An unidentified junior commissioner officer of Assam Rifles was killed and an unspecified number of the personnel injured in an ambush by suspected Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) at the Indo-Myanmar border in Manipur’s Ukhrul district in the early hours on Monday.

Police sources said the ambush took place at around 4.45 a.m. at Khokai village where the AR was on patrol duty.

The suspected militants first detonated two IEDs and when the 44 Assam Rifles personnel rushed to the spot, they attacked them with sophisticated weapons. The JCO, whose identity is yet to be disclosed by AR, died on the spot.

Details yet to be known

The police said the details were yet to be known as Khokai is a remote village from the Kamjong sub-division headquarters. Reinforcements have been rushed and combing operation is on, the police said.

Today’s ambush comes on the heels of another ambush yesterday also at the Indo-Myanmar border at Satang village near Moreh in Chandel district.

One AR personnel was killed and two others were injured in that ambush by Manipur Peoples Army.

Six-month-long night curfew had been imposed on October 12 along the 380 km stretch of the Indo-Myanmar border in Manipur portions stretching across Ukhrul, Chandel and Churachandpur districts restricting movement of any person five km from the international border to check insurgents and smuggling of illegal items, including arms and drugs. - PTI

 

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BDO abducted in Meghalaya | Zee News
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 - 14:48

Shillong: A Block Development Officer (BDO) in Meghalaya's South Garo Hills district was taken hostage by armed militants for not yielding to their extortion demands, police said today.

The 2010 Meghalaya Civil Service batch officer Jude Rangku T Sangma who was travelling to West Garo Hills district in a government vehicle after work last evening was abducted at Deku area, they said.

"We were informed of his being taken captive by armed militants at around 7 PM," a senior police officer in the district told PTI.

The vehicle was seized by the police and it was learnt that the officer who left Chokpot block office at around 4:30 PM had stopped over at a funeral of a relative in Deku Deganggre village before proceeding towards Tura.

According to the police, the armed militants took the BDO hostage and chased away his two companions while leaving the vehicle behind on the roadside.

Police believed that proscribed Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) commander Hedeo Momin alias Karak as the person behind the abduction.

The militant group had been at loggerheads with the officer for refusing to comply with extortion demands.

The abduction of Sangma is the third instance of a BDO getting abducted in Garo Hills region.

In 2012, Dadenggre BDO P K Boro was abducted from the block office and was released after 34 days of captivity.

Selsella BDO, Dr D Roy, was also kidnapped about a decade ago by the now disbanded Achik National Volunteer Council (ANVC) militant.

 

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Four hardcore NDFB(S) militants nabbed in Assam | Zee News
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 - 16:02

Guwahati: Four hardcore NDFB(S) militants have been apprehended by security forces during a joint operation in Assam's Chirang district.

Acting on specific information, a joint team of police and army launched a joint operation late last night in the area and nabbed the four militants, a defence spokesman said today.

During the search operation, the militants opened fire on the security personnel who could not retaliate due to presence of civilians in the vicinity but ultimately managed to overpower them.

The apprehended militants have been identified as Rajeev Basumatary alias Mwrgwng, allegedly involved in the attack on adivasis in December last, Hitesh Narzary, Mohanto Narzary and Antho Narzary.

A 7.65 mm Pistol, some ammunition and two grenades have been recovered from them.

PTI

 

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Bomb explodes in Manipur CMO's residence, none hurt | Zee News

Imphal: Unidentified persons exploded a bomb at the residence of Chandel district's Chief Medical Officer Ibombcha at Mayang Imphal in Manipur's Imphal West district, a police officer said.

No one was injured during the explosion early today but the private vehicle owned by Ibomcha was damaged, he said.

Ibomocha, the CMO of Chandel, lived in the Imphal West residence, the police officer said.

In another incident, a hand grenade was found at a residence in Imphal East district on the same day, the officer said.

The hand grenade was wrapped in a paper on which the name of Lourembam Rameshwar Meitei, neighbour of the owner of the house Naorem Pakison, was scribbled.

The neigbour's car was parked in Pakison's residence compound.

PTI

 

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Bomb found near CRPF camp in Manipur - The Hindu
Updated: November 2, 2015 07:01 IST
A powerful bomb was found early on Sunday morning 50 meters away from the complex of 109 Central Reserved Police Force (CRPF) battalion located at Mongsangei in Manipur’s Imphal West district, the police said.

The bomb was found in a bush at the southern side of the complex near Mayai Lambi road by passers-by who reported the matter to Singjamei police station, the police said.

The sophisticated bomb having a timer device with remote control was defused by the bomb disposal squad of Manipur Police, senior police officers said adding no one has been arrested in this connection and investigations were on. - PTI