JORHAT/GUWAHATI: Security forces on Saturday claimed to have foiled a possible terror attack by arresting four NDFB militants and an NSCN (K) rebel in Nagaland's Mon district border Sivasagar in Assam.
Police said the militants were coming from their Myanmar-based camps and they were arrested in the Namtola area while trying to sneak into Assam. This comes barely 24 hours after chief minister Tarun Gogoi confirmed TOI's report on NE militants joining hands with Myanmar-based rebel groups to strike in the state.
The arrested militants were identified as Niraj Daimari, Amor Borgoyari, Filip Islari, Chitra Ranjan Bosumatary of the NDFB and Ishak Kanyak of the NSCN (K).
Officer in-charge of the Namtola police station Pinaki Chakraborty said, "The five militants were caught by Assam Rifles and handed over to Assam Police. They were coming from their Myanmar-based camps after receiving arms training there. The group left Myanmar on July 1 and reached Mon on Friday. The security forces held them on their way to Assam. The NSCN (K) militant is a resident of Mon."
He added, "We suspect that the NSCN cadre had helped the four Bodo rebels to enter Assam. However, no arms or ammunition were found on them," he said.
Police said preliminary interrogation of the five militants revealed that various NE militant outfits have joined hands to carry on subversive activities in Assam and other states in the region. We suspect that they were planning to carry out strikes in the state in the run-up to Independence Day celebrations."
Additional superintendent of police (Sivasagar) Sunil Kumar said, "We are trying to find out if they were planning terror strikes in the state."
Confirming TOI reports on Ulfa taking help of the PLA and a merger of NE militant groups in Myanmar, Gogoi on Friday said, "It is true that Ulfa military chief Paresh Baruah is taking help from Manipur's PLA now. I have been informed of this by Central intelligence agencies. Security forces have been put on a high alert as the Ulfa-PLA joint operation is planning major strikes. There is threat to some of my ministers, but I don't want to name them."
Regarding the TOI report on the merger of militant outfits from the northeast and Myanmar, , the CM said "Myanmar has become a hub and a base for northeastern militant outfits. But only the Centre can do anything about this problem." Security agencies have also received confirmed inputs of Baruah pushing in two heavily-armed groups into the state from Myanmar to create terror in the coming weeks.
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