Guwahati, Feb 8 (IBNS) : Security forces apprehended two overground workers of banned NSCN (K) in Upper Assam’s Tinsukia district on Thursday, officials said.
Kohima-based defence PRO Colonel Chiranjeet Konwer said based on intelligence inputs, the troops of Assam Rifles Changlang battalion lauched an operation jointly wit the army at Kherang Bisa village under Bordumsa police station and nabbed the NSCN (K) activists, identified as Dumai Singpho and Chojagam Singpho.
Security personnel recovered 200 gm brown sugar worth Rs 1 lakh, Rs 56,860 in cash and other incriminating evidence from them.
Interrogation revealed that the overground workers had been actively providing administrative support to the outfit by covertly carrying out extortion and also peddling drugs for the group.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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