Dibrugarh: Security forces on Saturday recovered a cache of arms and ammunition buried in the Upper Dehing Reserve Forest in Tinsukia, Assam.
Assam DGP GP Singh in a post on X said, “Continuing our efforts against unlawful weapon holding, One Heckler & Koch SMG, 130 rounds Ammunition, 2 magazines and approximately one KG PEK explosive powder recovered by Police in Tinsukia. Suspected of belonging to a proscribed organization active on the Assam-Arunachal border.”
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Tinsukia superintendent of police Abhijit Gurav Dilip speaking on the recovery said, “We received information about the weapons and based on the input, a joint operation was launched in The Upper Dehing Reserve Forest.”
He added that during the operation the police team recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition.
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“It has been suspected that the arms and ammunition cache belongs to some insurgent groups”, he added.
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“Our operation has been going on in the Assam- Arunachal Pradesh border area for a long time. We suspect that some over-ground workers of militant outfits may have kept the items to hide from security forces,” Gurav said.
Earlier, security forces recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from a jungle area of Tinsukia district.