Dhubri, April 04: A powerful bomb and a pistol with ammunition, suspected to be of the ULFA, were today seized from a house in Dhubri district, figuring in the second phase of Assembly polls on April 11, police said.
Based on a tip-off, police raided the house of suspected ULFA linkman Narayan Rai at Gauripur and found one kg improvised explosive devise (IED) and a 6.62-mm pistol with four live cartridges, they said.
Documents related to the banned outfit were also recovered from the house.
Rai told the police that the ULFA had kept the explosives in his house after threatening him with dire consequences if he did not do so.
The seizure was made by the police in course of intensified combing operations in the sensitive areas ahead of the Assembly elections.
——–PTI