IMPHAL: Barely a week since Major-General C A Krishnan took over as the Inspector-General of AR (South)Assam Rifles (AR), jawans have killed at
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least nine suspected militants in Manipur.
On Wednesday night, the men in uniform gunned down six "insurgents" in the Sajik Tampak area bordering Myanmar, said a senior officer of the country's oldest paramilitary force. Sajik Tampak was once declared a "liberated" zone unofficially before rebels were flushed out of the area following a military operation.
The jawans found some arms and ammunition on the slain cadres whose identities are unknown yet.
Two hours before the encounter took place, the jawans of 28 AR killed three other suspected rebels in the Waithou area of Thoubal district. Three pistols and some bullets were found on the deceased.
People believe one was a leader of Komrem Development Organization (KRO), an apex social body of Komrem tribes. They suspect that Assam Rifles jawans staged a "fake" encounter.
The bodies have been kept at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) mortuary here for autopsy.
Former IG of Assam Rifles (South) Maj-General AK Choudhary had recently said underground activists were on the run.
Security forces, however, face difficulties in preventing IEDs from being planted in distant areas and rampant extortion carried out by underground cadres, he had said.
On the other hand, police commandos pulled up a suspected Prepak cadre in the Wangjing Mihatpung area on Wednesday night. On questioning the arrested, identified as N Joy Singh (23), he revealed that he was an over ground worker of the outfit and was helping its cadres in extorting money in Thoubal, an official statement said.
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least nine suspected militants in Manipur.
On Wednesday night, the men in uniform gunned down six "insurgents" in the Sajik Tampak area bordering Myanmar, said a senior officer of the country's oldest paramilitary force. Sajik Tampak was once declared a "liberated" zone unofficially before rebels were flushed out of the area following a military operation.
The jawans found some arms and ammunition on the slain cadres whose identities are unknown yet.
Two hours before the encounter took place, the jawans of 28 AR killed three other suspected rebels in the Waithou area of Thoubal district. Three pistols and some bullets were found on the deceased.
People believe one was a leader of Komrem Development Organization (KRO), an apex social body of Komrem tribes. They suspect that Assam Rifles jawans staged a "fake" encounter.
The bodies have been kept at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) mortuary here for autopsy.
Former IG of Assam Rifles (South) Maj-General AK Choudhary had recently said underground activists were on the run.
Security forces, however, face difficulties in preventing IEDs from being planted in distant areas and rampant extortion carried out by underground cadres, he had said.
On the other hand, police commandos pulled up a suspected Prepak cadre in the Wangjing Mihatpung area on Wednesday night. On questioning the arrested, identified as N Joy Singh (23), he revealed that he was an over ground worker of the outfit and was helping its cadres in extorting money in Thoubal, an official statement said.
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