Arrested construction firm staff’s WhatsApp messages reveal his ‘connection’ with insurgents

 

DEOMALI, Jul 12: A joint operation launched by Tirap Police and 6 Assam Rifles on the intervening night of July 11-12 has led to the arrest of a person carrying extortion money in cash amounting to Rs 4,28,000 and a smartphone, allegedly meant to be delivered to the NSCN (KYA) cadres active in the district.
For the past few days the district police were getting information that extortion activities were being carried out by the NSCN (KYA) cadres and the road construction companies were their main targets. Based on a specific intelligence input that a staff of a road construction company based is bringing a huge amount of money along with a mobile phone to be delivered to the insurgents, Tirap Police and 6 Assam Rifles established MCP at all the roads coming from Assam.
On the intervening night of July 11-12, a Bolero camper bearing registration no AR 18 3011 was intercepted and Krishna Barman (41), hailing from Dibrugarh, Assam was apprehended. On-spot interrogation revealed that he works as the site in-charge cum manager of a road construction company based in Natun Kheti village area and after a thorough search of the vehicle, a bag carrying Rs 4,28,000 and a brand new mobile phone was recovered.  
A more detailed interrogation further revealed that the NSCN (KYA) cadres were demanding the said money and mobile handset for many days and Krishna had come to Tirap to deliver the consignment.
Meanwhile, after going through the WhatsApp messages in the arrestee’s phone, it was established that he was in frequent touch with the insurgents through correspondence/contact and on several occasions had delivered money and provided logistics support to them. The recovery of the huge sum of extortion money is a huge success by Tirap Police and 6 Assam Rifles since if the amount reached the insurgents, it would have definitely been used for procurement of arms and ammunition.
A case of extortion has been registered vide 08/21 u/s 384/34 of the IPC r/w Sec.13/17 of the UA(P) Act  at Deomali PS and further investigation is on. DIPRO

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Kenter Joya Riba

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