2 IEDs Recovered In West Garo Hills

According to reports, acting on a tip-off the Meghalaya police and CRPF during a joint counter-insurgency operation recovered these IEDs

"The operation was carried out in the intervening night of Sep 9-10 and led to the recovery of 2 live IEDs (3.25 kgs of Class II explosives) and 3 detonators. A case has been registered under section 5 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1908 in the Tikrikilla Police Station and investigation is going on," said superintendent of police, WGH, Vivekananda Singh Rathore adding that the IEDs were hidden by criminals not by insurgents.

The official informed that the bomb detection and disposal squad (BDDS) from the 2nd MLP Battalion at Goeragre near Tura came in the spot and they disposed the bomb.

Earlier, Bajali police, arrested the key accused in the petrol-bomb attack on the house of AGP (Assam Gana Parishad) leader and educationist Dr Ranjit Deka. The youth has been identified as 24-year-old Mintu Ali of Pathsala town in Bajali district. Mentionably, Mintu reportedly lobbed petrol bombs at Deka's house at around 9 pm on August 7. Deka had contested the last Assam Assembly elections on an AGP ticket from the Bhabanipur constituency. He runs the 'Anundoram Baruah Academy', a reputed private educational institute here.

During the incident, Deka's family members were present in the house. After around 30 minutes of the incident, Mintu also reportedly threatened Deka's wife over the mobile phone. The number is yet to be traced. Bajali SP (Superintendent of Police), Dharmendra Das told The Sentinel, "His threat call gave us the clue to the location, where we traced him. A laptop and 13 mobile phone sets have been recovered from the house of the Mintu Ali. Further investigation is on."

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