Insurgency / Assam

GUWAHATI, June 16 ? As per the directives of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) a full-fledged human rights cell headed by an Inspector General of Police has been set up in Assam police headquarters to enquire into all cases of human rights violation by police personnel and it is expected that the cell will go a long way in improving the behaviour of the police towards common people. Inspector General of Police, Sri D K Borah, who heads the human rights cell, told The Assam Tribune that as per the NHRC guidelines, the basic objectives of the cell include monitoring of human rights...

SIVASAGAR, June 13 ? Arpan Saikia alias Niranjan Borthakur alias Keshav Mahanta, ULFA?s commander in-charge of Rongpur Anchalik Parishad was arrested by Dibrugarh district police and Army personnel at Pathalibam under Moran police station yesterday. Army walaid him as he was proceeding to a woman ULFA member?s house, Sivasagar police superientendent K V Sing Dev said today. According to police sources, Arpan Saikia joined ULFA in 1992 and was in Myanmar-based camp for most of the time. He was involved in atleast 20 different cases in Sivasagar. He is being interrogated jointly by...

GUWAHATI, June 11 ? The Police Reforms Committee has expressed the view that the most important requirement for reforms of the police force is improvement of the quality of manpower both as regards to the dealing of the police personnel with the public and their dedication to duty. The Committee headed by retired Director General of Assam Police N Changkakoty submitted its report to Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi yesterday. Talking to The Assam Tribune today, Sri Changkakoty said that the Committee studied functioning of the Police force from the Police station level to the highest level and...

GUWAHATI, June 6 ? Blame is now on the self-styled C-in-C of the prescribed ULFA, Paresh Barua, for the ?lost generation? in the State. A large number of families of ULFA members including those of top leaders like Sashadhar Choudhury and Pranati Deka, today filed cases against the ULFA C-in-C before Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC) accusing him of forcing their wards to lead an abnormal life in ULFA ranks. Sri Chandra Kanta Deka, father of ULFA leader Pranati Deka and father-in-law of the outfit?s ?finance secretary? Chitrabon Hazarika, led the group of representatives from ULFA members...

DARRANGAMELA (Nalbari), June 4? There will be no letup on the part of Indian Army in the counter-insurgency operation in the State notwithstanding the war cloud looming large over the western front of the country. Major General Gaganjit Singh, the GOC 21 Mountain Division which has been playing a lead role in fighting militants in the State, told this newspaper today that the prospect of an Indo-Pak war was not likely to ?affect the Army operation under unified command against insurgents in Assam.? The senior Army Officer who was here to inaugurate a drinking water plant set up by the 15...

DHUBRI, June 2 ? National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants today shot dead three members of a school teachers? family including a woman in Dhubri district, reports PTI. About six heavily armed ultras entered the house of the school teacher Paresh Brahma, at Bonsijhara village under Bogiribari police station and shot him dead along with his wife Helam Brahma (24) and their nine-year-old son, official sources said. The police said the militants had targeted Brahma as they believed him to be a informer which led to the killing of nine NDFB ultras in the same village by security...

TURA, June 1 ? The extent to which the banned NDFB has managed to penetrate inside Garo Hills was revealed following the arrest of a Wireless Operator of the Meghalaya Police Radio Organisation (MPRO) at Tura on Wednesday night. The arrest has portrayed a chilling picture of what could have happened had his cover not been blown. The MPRO deals with police communication and can monitor conversations and movement of police officers and personnel. The Garo Hills police had been tipped off by their Assam counterparts about a strong NDFB connection at Tura following the killing of nine NDFB...

GUWAHATI, May 29 ? Foreign connections of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) are now well known facts but on the basis of interrogation reports of the militants who were arrested or surrendered in recent years, security forces have pinpointed more than 40 routes commonly used by the cadres of the outfit to visit their foreign bases. Majority of the routes identified lead to the camps of the ULFA in the neighbouring country Bhutan, but several routes used by the militants to visit their bases in Bangladesh and Myanmar have also been identified on the basis of interrogation reports...

GUWAHATI, May 27? Militant outfit National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) received a major blow as nine of its members were killed in an encounter with security forces in the Mahamaya Reserve Forest in Dhubri district in the early hours today. Police sources said here that acting on specific information received by the police, troops of the Red Horns Division of the Army ambushed a group of 10 NDFB militants near Bonshijhora village in the Mahamaya Reserve Forest area around 5 a m today. The militants tried to escape by firing at the troops and by lobbing grenades, but nine militants were...

BADARPUR, May 24 ? Entire Barak Valley in Southern Assam is now being hit by the activities of Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam (MULTA), which has become a matter of deep concern for all sections of the peoples. The Cachar police has already arrested eight doubtful persons along with a huge quantity of arms and ammunition from Kanakpur Khalerpar area of Cachar district last Saturday night, in connection with various anti-social activities. From this incident, Cachar Police has drawn a clear picture that these eight arrested are undoubtedly members of the fundamentalist militant groups...