Security Forces (SFs) in an encounter killed three Karbi People’s
Liberation Tigers (KPLT) militants
at Tarapung village under
Shantipur Police Station in
eastern Bokajan subdivision
of Karbi Anglong District,
reports The Telegraph.
The three have been identified
as Pam Ranghang, Langki Rangpi
and Hemptun Teron. Three AK-56
rifles and huge ammunition
of AK-series rifles were recovered
from the site. 
Meanwhile, both State and Central Government find them in a
difficult position over the
stand they will take on the
bail plea of Ranjan Daimary,
‘chairman’ of Ranjan Daimari
faction of National Democratic
Front of Bodoland (NDFB-RD),
as and when it is moved, in
the October 30, 2008, serial
blasts case. The news report
said that an NDFB-RD team
had met Union Ministry of
Home Affairs (UMHA) officials
on June 18 to press for Daimari’s
release in order to move forward
the peace process. Ranjan
Daimary is the main accused
in the October 30 serial blasts
case and there is considerable
anger amongst the public regarding
the blast incidence. 
Elsewhere, Samir Ahmed, who was charge sheeted by the National
Investigation Agency (NIA)
for his alleged links with
Jewel Garlosa faction of Dima
Halim Daogah (DHD-J) / Black
Widow (BW), on June 20, expressed
his desire to become a Government
approver. Police arrested
Ahmed, who worked as an executive
of Hong
Kong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation Limited (HSBC)
Bank, along with Garlosa from
Bangalore on June 3, 2009, and since then he is lodged at Guwahati Central Jail. According
to NIA, Ahmed is a close associate
of Garlosa and he had facilitated
his stay in Bangalore
and helped him get fake identity
documents. |