A disturbing incident of militants using school students to plant bombs has come to light. Two school students have been picked up in this connection and they will be tried in special juvenile courts.
Highly placed security sources told The Assam Tribune that the investigation into the five blasts that took place on the Independence Day, led to the disturbing fact of the United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent) using school students to plant the bombs.
Sources said the two boys – one in Class IX and the other in Class X – were picked up following an intelligence input and during questioning, the students admitted that they were asked by the militants to plant the bombs.
Giving details of the events, sources said that the school students, both of whom belong to Number 4 Kakojan village under Philobari police station, were taken to a nearby forest by one ULFA(I) man, who belongs to the same village, on August 10. Sources said that four ULFA(I) men met them in the forest. They sat down under a tree and the ULFA(I) men persuaded them to plant the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) fitted with timers in different places.
The students admitted that they were asked to plant the bombs in the Doomdooma market and in front of the police station. They were assured that the timer devices were fixed in such a manner that those would explode only in the morning of August 15. The boys kept the bombs in their own houses for four days and fortunately those did not explode during that time.
Highly placed security sources told The Assam Tribune that the investigation into the five blasts that took place on the Independence Day, led to the disturbing fact of the United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent) using school students to plant the bombs.
Sources said the two boys – one in Class IX and the other in Class X – were picked up following an intelligence input and during questioning, the students admitted that they were asked by the militants to plant the bombs.
Giving details of the events, sources said that the school students, both of whom belong to Number 4 Kakojan village under Philobari police station, were taken to a nearby forest by one ULFA(I) man, who belongs to the same village, on August 10. Sources said that four ULFA(I) men met them in the forest. They sat down under a tree and the ULFA(I) men persuaded them to plant the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) fitted with timers in different places.
The students admitted that they were asked to plant the bombs in the Doomdooma market and in front of the police station. They were assured that the timer devices were fixed in such a manner that those would explode only in the morning of August 15. The boys kept the bombs in their own houses for four days and fortunately those did not explode during that time.
Though the students were asked to plant the bombs in the market and police station, at the last moment, they got scared and kept the bags containing the bombs in isolated places. The bombs exploded in the morning of the Independence Day, but fortunately, no one was injured in the incident.Sources said one ULFA(I) man, Rupam Asom, was the brain behind using the school students to plant bombs and till now, the police and security forces are not aware whether the senior leaders of the outfit approved such a plan.
As the school students picked up by the police are juveniles, they will not be tried in normal courts for the crime they had committed and they would be tried in special juvenile courts.
Sources pointed out that in the past, the ULFA(I) had used linkmen, couriers and even common criminals to plant bombs. But this was for the first time, the outfit used school students for such jobs.
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