Huge cache of weapons recovered in Guwahati, two held

Guwahati: Assam police on Wednesday recovered huge cache of arms and ammunition, explosives and arrested two persons in two separate incident in Guwahati, officials said.

According to reports, based on intelligence inputs, police had launched operation at NH-37 near Jorabat area outskirts of Guwahati and recovered huge cache of arms and ammunition from a vehicle and arrested two persons.

Police recovered one AK-47 rifle with two magazines, 164 rounds live ammunition of Insas rifle, six rounds AK-47 rifle ammunition, 380 rounds 9mm pistol ammunition from the vehicle which was on the way to Tura in Meghalaya from Nagaland.

Security personnel arrested two persons identified as Biswajit Sangma and Runa Sangma who allegedly involved in the illegal arms consignment.

“The nabbed person duo had carried the arms-ammunition from Dimapur in Nagaland to Meghalaya and they were suspected to involve with terrorist group in Meghalaya,” a top police official said.

In separate incident, police recovered 400 gelatin sticks, 200 detonators and 8 nos explosive wire from Inter State Bus Terminal near Garchuk in Guwahati on Wednesday morning.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)