Assam Special Investigation Team seeks Interpol help
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  • The Special Investigation Team (SIT) in Assam sought help from the Interpol to nab the perpetrators of the October 30 serial blasts in the State. According to sources, a list of 18 suspected persons reported to be camping in Bangladesh has also been handed over to the Army and the Border Security Force by the SIT1.

    In other developments, unidentified gunmen shot dead Konsam Rishikanta, a 25-year-old sub-editor of the English newspaper, The Imphal Free Press, in Manipur on November 172. On November 22, gunmen shot dead the Kokrajhar district correspondent of a leading Assamese daily, Amar Asom, Jagajit Saikia, at Kokrajhar town. Reports noted that since 1991, 16 journalists have been killed in Assam3.

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