The sustained pressure of security agencies has forced outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom and other militant outfits of northeast to wind up their camps in Bangladesh besides increasing the possibility of exodus of a large number of cadres running for shelter in and around Dhaka.
Disclosing that chairman of Manipur’s outlawed United National Liberation Front R.K. Meghen, alias Sanayaima, is in the custody of security agencies in Dhaka, security sources said that attempts are also on to arrest two top Ulfa leaders Antu Chawdang and Drishti Rajkhowa taking shelter in Bangladesh.
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Babbar Khalsa activist held
AGE CORRESPONDENT
lucknow
Oct. 24: Makkhan Singh, a dreaded terrorist belonging to Babbar Khalsa, was arrested by a joint team of the anti-terrorist squad and the Punjab police from Siddhartha Nagar district on Saturday night.
According to ADG Brij Lal, the police had received a tip off that Makkhan Singh aka Dayal Singh was in regular touch with Babbar Khalsa chief Badhawa Singh aka Chacha, who is now in Pakistan and is regulating the activities of his outfit from there. ”Our sources informed us that Makkhan was preparing to leave Siddhartha Nagar. On Saturday night, we arrested him...” the ADG said.
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Panchayat member abducted
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raipur
Oct. 24: Suspected Maoists on Sunday abducted a panchayat member at Usur in Chhattisgar’s restive district of Bijapur, the police said. Bothraj Sodi( 38) was kidnapped by a group of armed rebels when he was coming out of a local church in the morning, a senior district police officer said. “A search and rescue operation has been launched by security personnel immediately after the incident. The police has sealed Usur police limit to prevent the ultras from escaping into the nearby forest,” he added. This was the fifth case of abduction by the Naxals in the district in the past one month.
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Anti-terror school soon in C’garh
AGE CORRESPONDENT
raipur
Oct. 24: Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh has said that Indian Army would soon set up a counter-terrorism school in the state.
“The state government has sent a proposal to the Centre in this regard. The proposed counter insurgency school is most likely to come up in 2011”, Mr Singh told reporters here on Saturday evening after attending a programme “Know Your Army”, conducted by the Indian Army here to showcase its strength and attract youth of the state to join the Army.