Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal has requested the Ministry of Home Affairs to deploy 75 companies of Central Armed Police Force (CAPF), which had been withdrawn from Assam after the State elections in April this year.
Sonowal visited Kokrajhar on Sunday, where the militants had sprayed bullets on civilians on Friday, killing 14 people and injuring 20 others. CM reviewed the law and order situation with the top police and civil administration as well as with the top brass of the Army and asked them to be on vigil till the Independence Day celebrations.
He asked the DCs and SPs to hold security review meetings and nagarik samiti meetings and to take all precautionary and preventive measures to avoid any untoward incident in the run up to the Independence Day and also to secure the lives and property of the people.