Guwahati: As many as 25 blankets that were being transshipped to Myanmar-based camps of United Liberation Front of Assam (Independent), were seized and a woman was arrested at Jagun in Tinsukia district of eastern most Assam close to Myanmar border.
Security sources informed that the woman identified as one Jina Halong was carrying the blankets to ULFA(I) camps in Myanmar on being asked by one of the senior ULFA(I) leaders, Arunodoy Asom.
Outfit has pitched its main camp and training camp in Myanmar jungles under the patronage of with Naga rebel group NSCN-K. The blankets were meant for ULFA(I) cadres based in the neighbouring country in view of fast onset of winter in the area.
The security forces have mounted vigil against the outfit especially in eastern Assam’s bordering areas in Tinsukia, Dibrugarh and Sivasagar districts in the wake of the outfit’s recent strike on Hindi speaking people in remote part of Tinsukia district and reported extortion drive launched by it in the eastern Assam’s tea belt.
Meanwhile, during a meeting with the district police chiefs, the district deputy commissioners and senior officials of the state police and the civil administration here, Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal called for geared up vigil against anti-national elements including Jihadis that have posed threat to the internal security of the country.
He underlined the need for mounting vigil in river isles of Brahmaputra River where there is hardly any permanent police post.
It is suspected that Jihadi elements could take shelter in those unguarded river isles inhabited by suspected illegal Muslim migrants from Bangladesh.
West Bengal police’s Special Task Force (STF) arrested three JMB members from Assam’s Cachar and Buxirhat three days back raising the alarm in the state.
