INPT leader 'missing' in West Tripura

AGARTALA, May 5 ? The Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) on Saturday claimed the organisation?s assistant general secretary Sridam Debbarma has been kidnapped by armed ultras from Gurudayalpara in West Tripura district on Friday but though the police were yet to confirm the incident, they launched a search operation, reports PTI. Superintendent of Police (Operations) Dhurjoti Gautam said police launched a search operation to trace Debbarma, also the executive member of Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), after his personal guard informed the police that he was missing at around 11 p.m. Gautam said Sridam Debbarma and his companion INPT leader Mebar Jamatia did not inform the police about their movement and went to the village leaving their vehicle in a nearby village market, Jampuijala. They also asked the personal guards to wait there, the SP said adding Mebar Jamatiya did not contact the police about the incident on his own. The kidnapping was yet to be confirmed but investigations were on, he said. Meanwhile INPT general secretary Rabindra Debbarma in a press statement claimed the TTAADC official was kidnapped by armed ultras when he was returning from Gurudayalpara alongwith Mebar Jamatia. There was no news of Debbarma, he said.