From Our Correspondent
TURA: Army personnel on Friday made a huge recovery of around 4 kg of improvised explosive device (IED) from a Garo villager who was travelling in Assam-Meghalaya border on Friday.
Police suspect that the explosives were meant for the Garo Hills-based GNLA militants.
According to the police, the IED was recovered by the Army at Kukurkata in Goalpara adjacent to East Garo Hills district at around 11.30 am from an empty milk can which was wrapped
with jute ropes and kept in a vehicle which was proceeding from Nabang market in Goalpara, Assam to Benjengdoba in East Garo Hills.
There was a mixed group of Garo and Rabha people inside the vehicle which started from Nabang market.
The explosives were recovered by personnel of the 19 Sikh Regiment who were carrying out vehicle checking at Kukurkata.
As nobody claimed the explosive, the army personnel called the police from Bajengdoba to speak to the occupants of the vehicle.
After interrogation, a Garo villager identified as Pulnam Sangma hailing from Bolong Agitok village near Bajengdoba confessed that the IED was handed over to him by his uncle, Plu Sangma on Thursday.
The villager, further, stated that on Thursday night he had gone to stay at his friend’s house at Kasikagra village where his uncle contacted him to collect the IED from Nabang market and deliver it to a person at Bajengdoba on Friday.
Police sources informed that there was a possibility that either the ULFA or NDFB militants may have handed over the explosive meant for GNLA militants who have their stronghold in East Garo Hills.