Curfew relaxed for 6 hrs in Kokrajhar
With no fresh incident of violence on Sunday, the administration and security agencies relaxed curfew for six hours in town areas of trouble-torn Kokrajhar district.
However, administration decided not to relax curfew in nine villages where situation was tense and volatile even on Sunday.
The Inspector General of Police G.P. Singh said that there was no incident of violence on Sunday. “We have already intensified the counter-insurgency operations to flush out illegal weapons,” he said admitting that situation was still tense but security forces are dominating the majority of the vulnerable pockets of Bodoland Territorial Council.
Meanwhile, security agencies have intercepted conversations by outlawed NDFB commanders asking its cadres to stop killings. Indicating that outfit was involved in recent killings, security sources said that police have warned strict measures if any leaders of ruling Bodoland Peoples Front is found to have been hobnobbing with armed miscreants.
Claiming that investigation was on to identify those involved in recent killings and violence in BTC, security sources said that arrested BPF leader Monokumar Brahama has been remanded to police custody. The police had recovered two AK-47 rifles and live ammunitions from his house on Saturday.
BPF leader and Rajya Sabha MP Biswajit Daimary expressed dissatisfaction over the police action and alleged that it was “unnecessarily” targeting BPF leaders and trying to create unrest in Bodoland Territorial Council. In the first wave of violence between Bodos and Muslims in four BTAD districts and Dhubri in July-August 2012, 90 people were killed and more than 4.8 lakh were rendered homeless. The police have so far taken 33 people into custody following fresh outbreak of violence since November 10. Moreover the leaders of opposition political parties, cutting across the party line, condemned the violence and blamed chief minister Tarun Gogoi of failing to ensure safety security of its citizens.
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