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Perpetrators of Upper Assam grenade blasts arrested

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Guwahati, Dec 29: In a significant breakthrough after a sustained operation spanning weeks, the state police have arrested the perpetrators of the grenade blasts in three districts of Upper Assam.

“In an excellent operation lasting weeks, the three crimes of grenade lobbing by a banned organisation in Tinsukia, Sivasagar and Jorhat have been cracked and perpetrators arrested and motorcycles used recovered,” Assam director general of police Gyanendra Pratap Singh informed.

“People instigating these perpetrators through online platforms have also been identified and would be brought to book whichever corner they are in. The evidence would be presented in the appropriate court of law in due course,” Singh warned, while lauding the state police force for the breakthrough.

“Assam Police remains steadfast in its resolve to protect the people of the state from all violent crimes at all personal and professional cost. My compliments and gratitude to each officer and men associated in the operations. We resolve to keep the Assam Police flag flying high,” the DGP said.

Militant outfit United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I) had claimed responsibility for the grenade blast near a military station in Jorhat on December 14, besides two other blasts in Tinsukia district (on November 22) and Sivasagar district (December 9).

Notably, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had conducted the probe into the grenade blasts comes after the state authorities had requested the central investigation agency to assist in the investigation

A team from the central investigation agency had reached Jorhat on December 16 to probe the blasts in the three districts.

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