The wreckage of the Pawan Hans helicopter Tirap Deputy Commissioner Kamalesh Joshi was found at a remote area of Arunachal Pradesh where it crash landed on Tuesday.
The rescue operation made with three choppers along with a Sukhoi Jet locate the wreckage at Thinsa in the wee hours tracing a phone calls from Joshi to his wife at 2-10 in the afternoon. Senior officials arrived in the crash site and recovered the decomposed bodies in the morning.
The chopper went missing on Tuesday on its way to Khunsa from Longding. The last contact was established at 11-30 with Mohanbari airport. Initially, the search operation was concentrated at an area near Dalom where a section of local residents claimed to have heard the sound of a huge explosion in the sky.
But rescuers failed to trace it even after deployment of a Sukhoi Jet along with three other helicopters during the last six days.
5 Oct 2008 - 7:21pm | editor
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A grenade explosion seems to have oozed no less panic in Diphu during the 24-hour long KNLA-sponsored Karbi Anglong bandh on Friday.The explosion took place beside a petrol pump at the Manja Market in the evening. No one has been injured in the blast and nobody has seen the miscreants who lobbed the grenade.The seizure of a UPLF demand letter from the spot suggests the involvement of the insurgent outfit.
Jitesh Khosla will take over as new Chief Secretary on Tuesday. Khosla, the Additional Chief Secretary will succeed PP Verma will be retiring on September 30.
The Assam Government has appointed Binod Sessan as as the temporary chairman of the Board of Secondary Education, Assam. The appointment has come into force from Friday. The sitting mission director of Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan has succeeded Shantikam Hazarika who was asked to go on leave.
A string of sensational disclosure has come to light in the chargesheet in the Gadapani Pathak murder case.In its charge sheet, CID has named 12 people, including KLO militants and contractors. The charge sheet has disclosed a Rs 50 lakh deal with KLO for releasing Faizul Islam.Pathak, a Superintending Engineer in the Agriculture department was abducted by suspected KLO militants along with another Agriculture department official Faizul Islam on May 2, 2012. Although Faizul was later released, bullet- ridden body of Pathak was recovered.Police investigation named Hiranya Roy (KLO), Karan Barman (KLO), Amit Roy (contractor), Pradeep Roy alias Raghu (KLO), Uttam Roy (contractor), Bimal Brahma...
A split seems to have emerged in AKRSU just before the attack on it president Biswajit Roy on Friday.A section of AKRSU belonging to the rival faction is believed to have attacked Roy A youths attacked Roy when he was at Borpara in the afternoon.Roy was assaulted a day after had made some comments in support of Bodoland at Kokrajhar in a meeting with BTC chief Hagrama Mahilary.
Bagsa police have arrested three hardcore NDFB militants on Friday.The militants were captured from Salbari area when they were on the way to extort money from a businessman.Four militants reached a construction to extort money from the contractor. In the absence of the contractor, they asked his assistants to pay money and left the spot. Later, the local residents overpowered them and after being assaulted the trio were handed over to police.
Police claimed to have killed a hardcore ULFA militant at an encounter in Goalpara district on Tuesday.The encounter took place at Dudhnoi bordering Meghalaya during an operation led by Guwahati police. Acting on a tip off, Guwahati police launched an operation before the encounter took place in the morning.
NHPC general manager Anil Kumar Agarwal has been remaining incommunicado even 48 hours after he was kidnapped by NDFB(S) militants even as police arrested three persons in this connection.Police arrested Kumar Tamang, the driver of the vehicle ferrying the NHPC top official along with Puto Mooshahary, the owner of the SIM card used by the abductors and Nijon Daimary who owned the bike used by the kidnappers.NDFB(S) militants were believed to have kidnapped Agarwal from Bhalukpung along the Assam Arunachal Pradesh border on Sunday.
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