GUWAHATI, May 3 — Concerned State police officials at the ground level are yet to be given special instruction as a sequel to the agreements of Assam and Meghalaya governments to go for joint police operation against extremists active along the inter-State boundary. Police sources informed that although chief ministers of both the States recently announced the decision to go for joint anti-insurgency operations along the Assam-Meghalaya boundary areas, particularly in highly-infested boundary between Goalpara district in Assam and Garo Hills in Meghalaya, State police authority was yet to issue specific instructions to its officials located along the inter-State boundary areas.
However, the source informed that sharing of information about inter-State movements of militants belonging to ULFA, NDFB and ANVC had become a routine affairs between the police forces located on both sides of the inter-State boundary between Assam and Meghalaya. Superintendents of Police on both sides of the boundary now-a-days remain in constant touch which has helped a lot in tackling the extremists activities.
The sources informed that Assam-Meghalaya boundary areas were infested with ultras from NDFB, ULFA and ANVC. The ULFA and NDFB has been using the inter-State boundary area as base while on transit to camps in Bangladesh through Garo Hills of Meghalaya. However, there is no static base of these ultras along the boundary as they remain mobile in groups in the jugle terrain of the area.
The ANVC, the Garo militant outfit based in Garo Hills of Meghalaya, has been instrumental in helping ULFA and NDFB ultras’ movements in the area. Police sources claimed that joint operations by the Army and Police had been intensified along the inter-State boundary areas in Goalpara districts which led to visible decline in movements of ultras in the area.