Assam: Arms And Ammunition Of Chinese Origin Recovered In Sonitpur

GUWAHATI: Assam Police have recovered ammunition of Chinese origin in Sonitpur district, DGP Gyanendra Pratap Singh informed on Monday.

According to officials, the weaponry was recovered in a police operation earlier yesterday in the Bilasiguri-Batasipur village under the jurisdiction of Dhekiajuli police station in the district.

Singh said that the arms and ammunition were hidden under the surface during the active days of the banned militant outfit National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).

Taking to X, the top cop wrote that five hand grenades of Chinese origin and five hand-made grenades along with a pistol and revolver were recovered. The police also found five detonators buried in the village.

Notably, the armed separatist group, National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), was formed with the aim to provide the Bodo people their own independent Bodoland.

The Bodo Security Force, a militant organisation founded in 1986, is where NDFB was born. The organization had attacked security personnel and non-Bodo citizens in Assam on multiple occasions. The Santhal, Munda, and Oraon adivasis (tribes), whose ancestors had come to Assam as tea labourers during the British Raj, were specifically targeted.

Targeting Bangladeshi migrants in what it claims to be the Bodo territory became NDFB’s main focus since 2000.

In 2020, the NDFB dissolved itself and signed a peace pact with the government.

Meanwhile, in a joint operation with the Indian Army, Assam Rifles recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from the Kakching district of Manipur on Wednesday.

Acting on specific information regarding the presence of arms in fringe areas of the Kakching district of Manipur, a joint team of the Indian Army and Assam Rifles launched an extensive search operation on August 7 and recovered one AK Rifle, one 12 bore Single Barrel Rifle, two 9mm pistols, 11 grenades, ammunition and other war-like stores.

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