From Our Correspondent
Agartala: Altogether five persons including chairman and vice chairman of a village committee were kidnapped in two separate incidents during the past 24 hours, police said.
A group of NLFT insurgents raided Malda Kumar Para ADC village in Dhalai district on Tuesday night and kidnapped two villagers- Ms Baikyarung Tripura (27), chairman of the ADC village committee and Debendra Tripura (45), vice chairman of the village committee at gun point.
After receiving the information, Officer in Charge (OC) of Ganganagar police station along with staff rushed the spot and launched combing operation to rescue the kidnapped persons.
It is believed that the insurgent had kidnapped chairman and vice chairman of the ADC village to get huge ransom.
Sources said, a six-member NLFT group headed by Shambu Debbarma has been moving around Malda Kumar Para for the past few days.
It is suspected that the group was behind the abduction incident.
Border villagers are angry over the role of BSF jawans. There are reports of militant movement in some borer villages of Gandacherra subdivision. In spite of the movement, the BSF jawans have not yet launch any operation against the insurgents.
Three drivers were kidnapped by NLFT insurgents from a border area near Amar Border Outpost (BOP) under Ananda Bazar police station today.
Three vehicles were found static without any driver at Pusparam located between Amar BOP and Khangthlang BOP under Anandabazar on Wednesday around 1 pm.
Trucks were engaged for border fencing and border road construction work in that area. It is suspected that three drivers- Swapan Chandra Das of Pillak Baikhora, Nitish Gosh of Fulchari, Kamalpur and Gita Reang of Anandabazar might have been kidnapped by militants, police said. Senior police official including DIG (Northern Range) rushed to the spot with heavy reinforcement.
Massive man hunt has been launched to rescue the kidnapped drivers but it has yielded no result yet.
