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Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that ULFA was trying to strike in many form only to make its presence felt.Addressing a press conference, Gogoi said that external forces were working behind the outfit. But, he was quick to observe that the strength of the insurgents has declined. He said, “we are resilient and the security forces have foiled many attempts.”
he definition of crime has expanded to various fields like child-trafficking and cyber crime, the police force needed to be trained to handle such cases, said Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.Talking to reporters in Guwahati on Saturday, Gogoi said that police are fully controlled insurgency compared to many state police.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi said that a task-force would be set up within a month to look into the modernisation of the police and to control terror incidents.Addressing a press conference in Guwahati, Gogoi said, “We are going to constitute a committee. It will be a task-force. It will deal with the issues of how to modernise the police and how to contain such incidents.” The task-force was likely to have members from various security agencies like police and army, besides prominent public figures.
Dispur has alerted all districts to keep a strict vigil, he accused the banned outfit of getting help from destabilizing peace and development in the state. The police have arrested four persons, including an ULFA cadre and three surrendered members of the outfit for the Lakhimpur incident. Another militant, who was tasked with carrying out a blast in Dibrugarh surrendered. Six persons were injured in a grenade blast at a busy market area in Bokolia town in Karbi Anglong district.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday reviewed the state’s overall law
and order situation in view of the recent bombing in Lakhimpur and
Karbi Anglong. He asked DGP JN Chaudhury to ensure that ULFA militant
cannot explode any bomb. Talking to reporters at Koinadhara, Chauhury
said that police forces would be on maximum alert till the
Independence Day.
Kamrup district administration has imposed section 144 of CrPC in the
district after state home department sounded high alert across the
state. ULFA militants had exploded two grenades at North Lakhimpur
town on July 23, where five people were injured.
A few disturbing inputs available with police forces the authorities
to keep Assam on alert.
According to IB inputs, a group of ULFA militants has arrived in the
state to monger trouble in the run up to the Independence Day. This is
apart from the fear of martyrs day on Saturday.
The Home department sounded high alert across the state following
three grenade explosions in Lakhimpur and Karbi Anglong district in
the past 36 hours, where two people were killed and 9 others injured.
A highly trained 35-member ULFA group is believed to have entered the
state at the instance of ULFA c-in-c Paresh Barua. Baruah asked them
to make grenade attacks in five districts of upper Assam and...
In view of the coming Independence Day celebrations in the country and
the attack on Bodh Gaya temple by suspected fundamentalist groups
earlier this month, an alert has been sounded at several international
airports in the country, including the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi
International Airport in Guwahati.
There is no specific terror threat looms over the airport. But police
and airport authorities don't want to take any chance and have beefed
up security measures at LGBI airport.
The Centre has cleared Rs 1 crore for each of the six Tribal
Autonomous Councils to build their office space, minister of state for
tribal affairs Ranee Narah said. All those councils are currently
running their secretariats from rented accommodations.
The councils which will now have their own offices are Tiwa Autonomous
Council at Marigaon, Rabha Autonomous Council at Goalpara, Deori
Autonomous Council at Lakhimpur, Mishing Autonomous Council at
Dhemaji, Thengal Kachari Autonomous Council at Titabor and Sonowal
Kachari Autonomous Council at Dibrugarh.
The South Central Railway will run nine special trains - eight between
Secunderabad and Guwahati and one from Aurangabad to Secunderabad to
clear passenger rush.
Secunderabad-Guwahati train will depart from Secunderabad at 7.30 am
on July 26, August 2, 9 and 16 (Fridays) and arrive in Guwahati at
7.55 am on the third day i.e Sundays.
In the return direction, the train will depart from Guwahati at 6 am
on July 29, August 5, 12 and 19 (Mondays) and arrive in Secunderabad
at 9.15 am on Wednesdays.
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