Silchar, Apr 23 : Security forces have turned the heat on militants in North Cachar Hills and Hailakandi districts of Lower Assam.
A senior police official said Dispur, after consulting Delhi, had asked the security forces and police to step up their drive against United Liberation Front of Barak Valley (ULFBV) and the Jewel Gorlosa faction of the Dima Halam Daogah (DHD) — the two major groups operating in south Assam.
He said the impact of the fresh operations was evident in the recent spate of killings and arrests made by security forces in the area, considered to be the most backward in the state. Two top DHD (Jewel) commanders Daniel Gorlosa and Frankie Dimasa were arrested in Guwahati last month on the basis of correct intelligence inputs. Two commanders of the outfit were killed in a raid at Umrangshu in North Cachar Hills on April 10.
In Hailakandi district, contingents drawn from the police, the CRPF and the India Reserve Battalion organised raids on ULFBV hideouts in Katlicherra block on the Assam-Mizoram border this month. They also swooped down on the house of Pauchau Ram Reang, the chairman of the five-year-old outfit.
At least 21 activists of this Reang tribal outfit were trapped and two of its cadres killed in encounters recently. The security forces also rescued at least four persons from the outfit’s hideouts on Hailakandi’s border with Mizoram last month.
Telegraph India
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