DIBRUGARH, April 18 � In the aftermath of the ULFA killing a policeman and injuring another cop during an encounter at Tinthengia under Khowang PS and following another reported encounter in Tinsukia district recently, the security forces during a coordination meeting held at police guest house here discussed on strengthening coordination and sketched out plans to carry out intensified operations.
The coordination meeting, which was attended by Inspector General of Police (Eastern Range) LR Bisnoi and other police, CRPF and Army officials, decided to carry out the offensive exercise in all sensitive and vulnerable areas immediately. �The coordinated offensive exercise should however not create sense of fear and terror in the villages during the Bihu festivity,� IGP Bishnoi told the officers. He urged upon the uniformed men to restrain from any such exercise that could damage the Bihu spirit.
The recent hoisting of ULFA flags on the outfit�s raising day on April 7 at Moran, Tinthengia and Rajgarh in the district and twin encounters with the ULFA, have come as a severe blow to the security forces engaged in anti-insurgency. A policeman was killed while another sustained bullet injury during a fierce gunbattle between the ULFA militants and the police near Tinthengia under Khowang PS. The group of ULFA cadres, however, managed to escape under the cover of darkness.
IGP Bishnoi, superintendent of police Abhijit Bora and other officials of civil as well as police administration paid homage to the departed soul of Sisuram Das, whose body was brought to the police reserve. Later, the body of Das who was a constable from the 19 India Reserve Battalion was sent home in Sivasagar for the last rites. The injured police Dulumoni Bora is recuperating from the bullet injury in Assam Medical College Hospital, Dibrugarh.
