Four Held With Arms at Bokajan of Assam

The operation was carried out based on secret information at Ghariyaldubi area under Bokajan police station.

The four persons identified as Krishna Orang, Robert Haro, Lokash Kangari and Raju Ghatowar. The police arrested all of them in the spot.

During the thorough search the police recovered a 9 mm pistol, 22 mm pistol, a Chinese grenade, a handmade grenade, and five rounds of bullets.

However, after the operation the police informed that they don't have any link with any terrorist group but further investigation is going on.

Earlier, A suspected arms smuggler who was arrested in a joint operation by Border Security Force (BSF) and Assam Police in Karimganj district were killed in an encounter a few hours later while trying to escape. The deceased, Nurul Islam, and another accused H Liang Khiyamon were arrested for carrying illegal arms while onboard the Silchar-Guwahati train at Assam's Badarpur. Islam was killed around midnight at the Marjatkandi area under Badarpur police station when he attempted to escape, police claimed.

Acting on a the tip-off, BSF, and Assam Police jointly recovered 5 pistols, including four 7.65 mm pistols and a pen pistol from 31-year-old Islam, a resident of Baraigram area of the Karimganj district and 22-year-old Khiyamon, a resident of Tuensang district in Nagaland, during a search of Silchar-Guwahati passenger train on Monday morning. The duo was arrested for smuggling arms, police said. A police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Islam was taken to Marjatkandi area in Badarpur on Monday midnight for further investigation in the case but he tried to snatch a gun from a policeman and tried to escape.