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Four ultras held

By Hantigiri Narzary |

Security forces have claimed to capture four militant cadres including a hardcore cadre of Kamatapur Liberation Organisation(KLO) in three different places in Lower Assam’s Kokrajhar and Baksa district on Monday. In a joint operation of Assam police and army was conducted at Kalpani area where Binay Barman of Paschim Kalpani of Baksa, a hardcore cadre of KLO was arrested from his house wee hour on Monday. He took military training in 2012 in Bhutan and was involved with various activities’ country made pistol, 31 live ammunition of 5.56 pistol, 24 rounds of 7.62 –rusted, five empty rounds, two bullet heads, two pocket diaries and a mobile handset were recovered room him. A cadre of NDFB (Songbijit faction) and two cadres of Rabha Viper Army were arrested from Kashiabari Tapu village late last night under Gossaigain PS in Kokrajhar district of Assam. They were identified as Rabiram Basumatary(NDFB-S) and Seven Rabha, Shimbu Rabha. One riffle, one pistol, four live bullet recovered from them.

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