Source: Hueiyen News Service
New Delhi, November 15 2009:
The Assam government has decided to augment the strength of its police outposts on the inter-state boundaries along south Assam to tackle insurgents' incursions from neighbouring Manipur and Mizoram .
The move comes in the wake of the attack by the UGs on the 15 India Reserve Battalion (IRB) border outposts at Chekarcham, a remote village in Sonai block of Cachar district on Thursday night.
The UGs took away a large cache of arms and ammunition and left four policemen injured.
The State director-general of police, Mr Shankar Barua has said that the state police would soon be armed with modern weapons to make them more effective against gun-toting militants in the south Assam border outposts.
Jawans from the army's 11 artillery field regiment and combatants from 147 CRPF were combing the jungles near Chekarcham along the Assam-Mizoram-Manipur border to track down the insurgents.