December 23, 2025 02:47 am (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Bangladesh on edge: Student leader shot as pre-poll violence deepens after Hadi killing | Historic deal sealed: India, New Zealand sign landmark Free Trade Agreement in record time | Supreme court snubs urgent plea to stop PMO’s chadar offering at Ajmer Sharif | Emergency landing drama: Air India flight heads back to Delhi after engine malfunction! | PM Modi slams ‘cut and commission’ TMC in virtual Taherpur address | US launches Operation Hawkeye Strike in Syria targeting ISIS after Americans killed | Horror on tracks: Rajdhani Express ploughs into elephant herd, eight killed in Assam | Horror in Bangladesh: Hindu man lynched and set on fire amid violent protests | Bangladesh in flames: Student leader Sharif Osman Hadi's death triggers massive protests, media offices torched | Chaos in Dhaka! Protesters assault New Age Editor, burn down newspaper offices amid deadly unrest

8 militant groups active in Assam, 19939 extremists arrested since 1991

| | Mar 24, 2015, at 02:04 am
#8 militant groups active in Assam # 19939 extremists arrested since 1991
Guwahati, Mar 23 (IBNS): Eight militant groups including United Liberartion Front of Asom (Independent), National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Sangbijit) are active in Assam.
Replying a question of AIUDF MLA Abdur Rahim Khan, state Agriculture and Panchayat & Rural development minister Rockybul Hussain said on state assembly on Monday that, eight militant groups including ULFA(I), NDFB(S), KPLT, KLO, HuM, MULTA, CPI(Maoist) and JMB(Module) are active in the state, while 13 different militant groups are in SoO with government.
 
On behalf of Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who also took charge in Home department, the state Agriculture minister said that, since 1991 up to March 15, 2015 security forces had apprehended at least 19,939 extremists of different militant groups including 14,982 of ULFA, 4,059 of NDFB, 410 of KPLT, 335 of MULTA, 88 of CPI(Maoist), 51 of KLO and 14 of JMB(Module) from different places of the state.
 
“A total of 6082 incidents were committed by the militant groups during the period including highest 3632 incidents by ULFA in the state,” Rockybul Hussain said.
 
“Security forces also recovered a total of 2059 nos of arms from the militant groups during the period,” the minister said.
 
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
 

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.
Related Images
In Images: PM Modi, Oman’s Sultan witness MoU exchange
In Images: PM Modi, Oman’s Sultan witness MoU exchange Dec 19, 2025, at 12:06 am
In Images: PM Modi meets Oman’s Sultan in Muscat
In Images: PM Modi meets Oman’s Sultan in Muscat Dec 18, 2025, at 11:43 pm
In Images: PM Modi arrives in Ethiopian Parliament
In Images: PM Modi arrives in Ethiopian Parliament Dec 17, 2025, at 05:32 pm
Related Videos
#bangladesh: Hindu Man Lynched, Set Ablaze as Islamist Mob Runs Riot After Youth Leader’s Killing Dec 22, 2025, at 04:31 pm
PM #Modi witnesses soulful rendition of #vandemataram by Ethiopian singers in #Ethiopia Dec 22, 2025, at 04:30 pm
Moment Sydney Bondi beach shooter was disarmed by brave man in civilian clothes Dec 22, 2025, at 04:29 pm