Kokrajhar (Assam), September 16:A gun factory, meant for the proscribed NDFB and other insurgent outfits, was busted today in lower Assam’s Chirang district and a huge quantity of gun-making raw material, ammunition and explosives recovered and one man arrested.
On a tip-off, a joint team of the 19 Madras Regiment and police raided Kangrajhara jungle area under Bijni police station limits in the wee hours and apprehended one Kamle Basumatary of Ladangiri along the Indo-Bhutan Border.
Basumatary then led the forces to the place where tools for making countrymade guns were recovered.
The seized tools included a large number of iron pipes used for making barrels of guns, recoil springs, firing pins, gun powder, hydrogen cylinders, charcoal, gun making tools, assorted live ammunition and a ready 9-mm pistol.
Basumatary confessed before the security forces that though he was not with any militant organisation, he made the weapons and ammunition for selling to the NDFB and other extremist groups active in the area at a minimum cost of Rs 15,000 per gun. PTI