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Guwahati, March 5 : Paresh Baruah led United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent) and Meghalaya's outfit group Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) have planned to blow up major explosions and attack on security forces in Lower Assam and Garo hills.
A top source of Intelligence Bureau (IB) said that, the both outfit group has been jointly planned to triggered a series of explosions in Assam and Meghalaya and also attack on security personnel.
The IB source further said that, the outfit groups also used professional criminals and carriers to carry explosives and to plant IEDs, bomb.
After intercepting telephonic conversation between two top leaders of ULFA (I) and GNLA, IB had managed to find out the biggest planning of the outfits.
The source said that, IB has already informed the Union Home Ministry and police, home departments of both states and other security agencies about the militants plan.
"It is a concern issue that militant groups had used professional criminals and carriers for their activities," the IB source said.
Meanwhile, Assam Police ADGP Pallav Bhattacharya said that, security has been beefed up in Guwahati and other parts of the state following the IB input.
"An ULFA group has been trying to enter in Guwahati and to trigger explosions in the city. We have launched massive operation at all suspicious areas in and out of the city," the top Assam cops said.
On the other hand, security forces on Sunday had recovered a powerful IED from Upper Assam's Charaideo district.
Following a tip-off, police and army had jointly launched operation at Dabluhabi area near Charaipung under Sonari police station and recovered the IED from a house owned by Ghanakanta Gogoi, who also was apprehended.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
