Source: Hueiyen News Service / Agency
Shillong, May 03 2009:
AN ACCOMPLICE of the Dima Halem Daogah-Jewel (DHD-J) outfit was arrested on Saturday and a firearm and Rs 50 lakh found in his possession, police said here.
Police identified the person as Aten Haflongbar, 36, who was arrested from the state capital in the early hours and believed to be part of an arms smuggling racket.
Assam police told PTI that Haflongbar, a contractor, was associated with the banned militant group that had carried attacks on trains plying in the region.
Saturday's arrest came one month after the netting of four arms dealers by a joint team of Assam and Meghalaya police.
The Joint team had on April 1 arrested the four, including a contractor of the Assam Public Health Engineering department, near Jorabat along the Assam-Meghalaya border and recovered Rs 1 crore cash from them.