The ongoing operation against the illegal weapons in the four districts of Bodoland Territorial Areas Districts (BTAD) will be intensified further after the Assam Governor had issued orders to go for house-to-house search operation to seize illegal weapons.
Governor JB Patnaik had issued the orders after reviewing the law and order situation in the BTAD areas with the State Chief Secretary and Director General of Assam Police and its impact on the developmental activities.
The police and security forces had intensified operations and engaged two companies of additional forces, which have arrived in the State recently, in the operation against illegal weapons.
“The operation against the illegal weapons will be intensified further from now on after the Assam Governor had given orders in this regard. We have already started the operation in Kokrajhar and other districts of the BTAD and recovered several illegal weapons,” said Assam’s Home Secretary GD Tripathy while talking to The Pioneer on Friday.
The security forces had been carrying out the operations based on specific information but the recent orders from the Governor will enable the security forces to go for house searches, whenever it is required.
A total of 10 people have been killed in Kokrajhar and another one in neighbouring Baksa district in fresh violence that started since November 10, forcing the district administration to enforce indefinite curfew in Kokrajhar.
“The situation is improving and the indefinite curfew had been removed for the last few days except for the night hours. Night curfew has been still in force - from 9 pm to 6 am,” said a senior official deployed in the district and said that no fresh incidents have been reported for the last few days.
Kokrajhar, Chirang and Dhubri districts of Assam had witnessed the worst-ever communal riots between the Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslim settlers during July-August this year killing over 100 persons and displacing over four lakh people.
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