Security tightened in Cachar

OUR CORRESPONDENT

Silchar, Nov. 2: The army took up positions in Cachar district since last night in a bid to foil the attempts by Bangladeshi saboteurs to plant bombs in this sensitive border district. Superintendent of police of Cachar Violet Barua said the security situation in the district was discussed at a high-level review meeting in her office yesterday. Apart from the army officers from the 57 Mountain Division, the senior commanders of the BSF and the CRPF were also present at the meeting. She said the meeting had drawn up a security blueprint to thwart any possible attempt at subversions by fundamentalists in collaboration with the local Islamist extremists to foment trouble in Cachar district, which has 32km of almost porous border with Bangladesh. Barua added that one such step would be the patrolling by the army along with the other paramilitary forces and local police in some trouble-prone and sensitive areas identified by their agencies so that the security forces could secure in those places an “area domination”. Police sources in Cachar said such precautionary steps there had become quite necessary in the wake of the bomb runs by the alleged Huji elements in the adjacent country and their local collaborators in the acts of subversions. source: the telegraph india