The army made a plan for the martyrdom of the colonel

Imphal. Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Sunday said security will be beefed up along the Myanmar border from where the militants who ambushed Assam Rifles personnel and their family members had infiltrated. After laying wreath at the mortal remains of an Assam Rifles colonel, his wife, son and four other jawans at the Imphal airport, the Chief Minister also directed the Home Department and paramilitary forces to nab the militants at the earliest. Has gone.

Officials said a massive search operation is being conducted jointly by the paramilitary Assam Rifles and the state police in the forests around Sekhon village, where the ambush took place on Saturday. Two insurgent groups – the People’s Liberation Army and the Manipur Naga People’s Front – have jointly claimed responsibility for the attack on Saturday. Talking to reporters after the wreath laying ceremony, Singh said, “The government will not tolerate such militant activities in the state.”

Strongly condemning the attack on the Assam Rifles convoy, the chief minister said he has directed the home department and paramilitary forces to “arrest and punish the culprits” as per law. The mortal remains of Colonel Biplab Tripathi, his family members and Assam Rifles personnel, who were martyred in the Manipur terror attack on Saturday, have been sent to their hometowns.

Colonel Tripathi, commanding officer of Khuga Battalion of Assam Rifles, his wife Anuja and son Abir, besides four jawans of the country’s oldest paramilitary Assam Rifles, were killed in IED blasts and gunfire in Manipur’s Churachandpur district on Saturday.

The four Assam Rifles personnel killed in the attack included RFN Shyamal Das, RFN Suman Swargiyari, RFN RP Meena and RFN Khatanei Konyak.

Col Tripathi was a resident of Raigad in Chhattisgarh while RFN Das was a resident of Murshidabad in West Bengal. RFN Swargiyari was a resident of Baksa district of Assam. RFN Konyak hailed from Mon district of Nagaland while RFN Meena hailed from Dausa district of Rajasthan.