Raids conducted in search of Bru ultras: Mizoram police

AIZAWL, July 20: The Mizoram police on Wednesday said the July 12 raids on refugee camps in Khedacherra area of North Tripura was done following reports that some Bru ultras were taking shelter there, reports PTI. Stating that the raids were carried out after prior information to the Tripura police, the Director General of Police of Mizoram M Tumsanga said at least two of the persons arrested from the camps in Khedacherra were involved in illegal activities like enrolling Bru youths in BNLF and torching of a bus near Saithah on April 15. "Our boys launched massive combing operations along the Mizoram-Tripura-Bangladesh border areas in search of Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) militants in the wake of the killing of seven policemen on June 30," he said. The dgP said Tripura police had not lodged any formal protest with the Mizoram counterparts on the raid on refugee camp and "we will give formal reply to them if and when they lodge a formal protest". The Mamit district SP gave prior information to police authorities in Tripura before the July 12 raid, the DGP claimed. An official spokesperson had, however, said in Agartala on July 16 that the Tripura police had made a strong protest with the Mizoram police.