In yet another body blow to the Karbi Peoples liberation Tigers (KPlT) in Assam, a joint team of Army and Assam Police has arrested five leaders from a remote location in Hamren subdivision of the Karbi Anglong district on Tuesday. A huge cache of arms and ammunition were also recovered during the operation including one universal machine gun, six AK rifles, seven pistols and one grenade launcher, ten magazines of pistol, 16 magazines of AK 16, 2,490 rounds of AK Rifle ammunition, 31 rounds of pistol ammunition and one drum magazine of UMG.
Defence Spokesman lt. Col Suneet Newton said this on Tuesday while adding that the arrests followed a counter insurgency operation by the joint team of Army and police at lacheng area in western part of the district on Tuesday. “We have got a lead that some cadres of the outfit are hiding in the area after interrogating those seven leaders who were arrested on Monday. A joint team cordoned off the area following which the militants fired at security forces. This led to a gun battle and we arrested five of them,” he said.
Om Monday the security forces had arrested seven leaders of the outfit including its commander-in-chief, Sunder Dera and deputy commander in chief, Danger Ingti, from different locations in the district. On February 10, the security forces had nabbed KPlT’s chairman Dondri Kramsa alias Sing Hanse.