Tinsukia (Assam), Jun 27: Two militants of the proscribed ULFA(I) were arrested with arms and ammunition in Assam’s Tinsukia district on Saturday, with a top official saying that they were tasked with killing people in Tinsukia town.
The operation was carried out in Jagun by a team of Assam police with the help of central security agencies based on intelligence reports, Tinsukia Senior Superintendent of Police Mayank Kumar said.
Two ULFA(I) cadres — self-styled second-lieutenants Siyor Asom alias Humenjyoti Baruah and Manoj Asom alias Papu Moran — both residents of Tinsukia district, were apprehended, the SSP said, adding that they were involved in attacks on security agencies at Kakopathar and Jagun earlier.
Two AK-56 rifles, 172 rounds of AK ammunition, two hand grenades, a medicine kit, syringes and opioids, food items for survival in jungles, backpacks and other war-like stores were recovered from them.
Kumar said that preliminary investigation revealed that the two cadres were “tasked to target and kill innocent people in Tinsukia town indiscriminately in an act to create terror”.
“The planned modus operandi indicates influence of external actors to destabilise the region,” the senior police officer claimed. (PTI)
