Tension at Kumargramduar

 

COOCH BEHAR, July 23: Following recovery of four bombs from Choudhurighat of Uttar Haldibari in Kumargramduar block under Alipurduar yesterday the locals turned panicky fearing fresh trouble in the region.

 

It may be mentioned here that four bombs were recovered from Choudhurighat on the bank of Sankosh river yesterday. Intelligence wing personnel of the Army recovered the bombs packed in an abandoned shopping bag. Alipurduar ASP Mr KB Dorjee and other senior officials rushed to the spot and the area was cordoned off. Later, bomb disposal squad men from Criminal Investigation Department came from Siliguri and after examining those bombs they defused those explosives. They reportedly observed that the bombs were not of very high powered.

 

It was suspected that persons connected with outlawed outfits like KLO brought in the bombs to use these for subversive activities prior to the Independence Day. During investigation the intelligence personnel reportedly came to know that two persons had left the most ordinary looking bag on the riverbank before crossing the river by that ferry-ghat. They are not winding up the connection of the ULFA with these bombs because the outfit's Raising Day is on the corner.

 

As no agency is releasing any information about the bombs and the men behind these, suspicion is growing high among the people. The place from where the bombs were recovered is not far from Bhutan and Assam borders and such a location is obviously fuelling various doubts. At the same time it is very hard for anyone to do any crime because of presence of huge paramilitary forces in the nearby areas. And so the question is : Who done it? []