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.
NDFB's Ranjan Daimari faction struck a ceasefire pact with the Centre on Friday which is believed to be of great help to restore peace in BTAD. Union joint home secretary Sambhu Singh represented the Centre in the tripartite in Guwahati where NDFB chairman Ranjan Daimary was present. The Bodo militant agreed to deposit over 40 arms apart from a list of 379 militants who would be kept in 2 designated camps. Daimary told reporters after the talks thata their demands are purely political and hoped the the problem woule be sold politically. ADGP AK Route and home secretary...
Decks are clear for Upper House. The strength of the council of ministers is also set to be increased soon. An emergency cabinet meeting held at the residence of prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh appoved the proposal for the Upper House which has been pending for the last couple of months.
A brain storming meet of police heads from 14 districts chalked out a slew of strategies to counter the growing militant activities in these districts. Presiding over the meeting at Assam police Headquarters on Thursday, DGP JN Chaudhury asked the SPs and IGs and DIGs to sternly deal with the fanning militant forces in the state. The state of late, has witnessed an orgy of militanta activities in the form of murder, abduction and extortion forcing the centre to keep Dispur on alert.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday said the the government wont tolerate any crime against women. Talking to reporters in Guwahati on Wednesday, Gogoi said that a special task force would deal with the case. According to the chief minister, post mortem report suggests no rape. He hoped the truth would come to light soon.
Five days have passed since a woman was brutally attacked and dumped on the roadside in Lakhimpur who succumbed injuries at the GMCH. But police have yet to arrest the perpetrators which runs into a hail of protest accross the state. Thousands of people have been staging dharna in Lakhimpur demanding immediate arrest of the culprits. The protestors made it clear that they would remain calm only after the examplary punishment of the perpetrators. The incident took place in Boginadi when the mother of 8 year old child was brutally attacked after she got into a tempo on her way to take her child back from school...
The minor boy critically injured in the Bongaigaon blast died in Guwahati on Wednesday. The three year old boy died three days after he was rushed to the Guwahati Medical College Hospital. The minor boy was critically wounded in Bongaigaon on Sunday as he was on the way to attend the Raas festival in the evening along with his parents. Suspected NDFB-B exploded the powerful grenade in the town leaving 10 injured.
Three more people of a family were killed in the name of witch hunt. The incident took place at Rangalibasti area five days ago. The bodies of the Karbi family were recovered on Tuesday night four days after they went missing. The incident came to light after one of the family members found them traceless. He approached police alleging that on several earlier occassions a section of the villagers inflicted inhuman torture suspecting witch craft. Police arrested three persons in this connection and acting on their confessional statement police dug up the bodies from a jungle.
Despite stepped up security measures, Golaghat town has turned into a den of criminals. In a sensational incident, a gang of dacoits looted the Digambor Jain temple after killing the securityman on Tuesday. The incident took place on Wednesday wee hours when the dacoits attacked Parasuram Goala as he was trying to them from entering into the temple at Chandan Nagar. Goala died on the spot before the dacoits looted the temple. Golaghat police have detained 3 persons in this connection.
Two dreaded NDFB-S militants are believed to have been killed at a fierce gunbattle in Kokrajhar on Tuesday. The encounter took place in the evening during a joint offensive against the militants---mongering trouble in BTAD areas in the form of killing, extortion and kidnapping.
Revenue minister Prithvi Majhi had a narrow escape when a powerful explosion blew off a vital bridge five minutes after he crossed it in Cachar on Tuesday. It took place at 7.30 in the evening on the National Highway No 54 in Lakhipur. Majhi and Dinesh Prasad Goala were way back to Silchar after attending a public meeting. The bomb was planted under the bridge which exploded with a huge sound and the bridge blew off. There is no report of any casualty.But surface communication remained heavily disrupted. No outfit has so far claimed the responsibility.
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