GUWAHATI, April 28 � The Assam Police detained six persons from Goalpara and Kamrup districts, including two from Guwahati in the last 24 hours, as intelligence inputs indicated towards the banned outfit planning blasts in the capital city.
Top police sources confirmed that a team of ULFA�s 109 battalion had carried out a survey of the city and that it was planning to let loose a reign of terror in Guwahati.
Intelligence inputs hinted that the blasts are being masterminded by Drishti Rajkhowa, �commander� of ULFA�s 109 battalion.
�The ULFA team is concentrating somewhere in Goalpara and the explosives, as per our intelligence report, have already been procured,� sources told The Assam Tribune.
Sources, however, refused to buy the idea that the subversive activities are being planned to derail the peace initiative taken by a group of distinguished citizens.
�This appears to be a desperate move on the part of the outfit to make its presence felt and make some quick bucks through extortion,� the sources claimed.
Sources went on to inform that the police have launched a manhunt to nab those entrusted with the job of planting the explosives. �We are trying to track their movement and an alert has been sounded in both the districts,� sources stated.
Another senior police official told this reporter that the message has been shared with the paramilitary forces and a close vigil has been put in place.
Security arrangements around the vital installations and market places are being reviewed and security arrangements beefed up, where necessary.
Vivekananda Das, SSP in-charge (City), when asked, conceded that some ULFA cadres are trying to sneak into the city to create subversive activities and all the thana and outposts have been alerted to take preventive steps.
