Kokrajhar, June 4: Suspected National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) militants abducted two forest officials from Kuklung reserve forest under Bijni police station in Bongaigaon district this morning.
Police sources said the two assistant conservators under the West Kokrajhar forest division had gone to Kuklung in two Maruti vans and a truck to check the progress of pillar consolidation.
?Two motorcycle-borne militants kidnapped the officials at gunpoint,? a senior police official said. Other militants who were hiding nearby snatched the car keys. The Kuklung reserve forest is on the western side of Manas National Park.
The two officials are Md Hamidul Hussain assistant conservator, Dhubri and B.D. Zaman of Aie valley division. Some other forest officials, who had come to the reserve forest, managed to flee.
A hunt has been launched for the officials.
In Guwahati, relatives of those Ulfa militants who have been ?forcefully? kept in jungles by the outfit have sought intervention of the Assam Human Rights Commission to ensure the release of their kin.
The relatives, bunched under the Assam Public Works Ulfa Pariyal Committee, have filed a petition before the rights panel to issue summons to the Ulfa c-in-c Paresh Barua in this regard.
They said the outfit was still recruiting youths from Nalbari, Kamrup, Barpeta and Darrang districts.