GUWAHATI: An Army captain and a civilian were injured in an encounter with suspected insurgents of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) in Assam’s Kokrajhar district. The police said the encounter took place at Raimora in Gossaingaon area on Thursday night.
Capt Tripatpreet Singh of the Rajput Regiment and a civilian, Rufon Tigga- who was hit by a stray bullet, are undergoing treatment in Guwahati.
“The Army officer, who sustained bullet injuries on his shoulder, is admitted to an Army hospital in Guwahati while the civilian is being treated at Guwahati Medical College and Hospital,” Kokrajhar superintendent of police, Rajen Singh, told the New Indian Express.
The incident came amid stepped up operations by security forces against the NDFB rebels in Kokrajhar and some other districts of western and northern Assam.
In the aftermath of the 2014 carnage of the Adivasis by the NDFB, over a 100 rebels of the outfit were either killed or apprehended by police and security forces. But a group of rebels, led by G Bidai, have still remained elusive.
The police and security forces managed to zero in on them on some occasions but they managed to flee. According to police, the group is currently holed up along the Assam-Bhutan border.