07/01/2005 Two army personnel, including major killed in Assam due to mistaken identity:
Guwahati, Jan 7 : Mistaken identity cost the lives of two army personnel, including a major, whom a joint police and CRPF team shot dead taking them to be ULFA militants in upper Assam's Dibrugarh district, Additional Superintendent of Police (HQ) A Swargiary said here today. DIG (Eastern Range) Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta had announced in the morning yesterday in Jorhat two ULFA militants were shot dead in an encounter and two 4-mm pistols were recovered from them. However, the police later found the identity cards of Maj Mukesh Chaurasia and sepoy Bikash Sensowa from their shirt pockets, Swargiary said. The two armymen in civvies were mistaken to be ULFA insurgents as there was information that two ULFA ultras were in Tengakhat area for extorting money there. On being surrounded by the joint security team waiting at Samokiagaon, Swargiary said, the defence personnel after walking out of their vehicle parked at a distance fired at the joint team. The securitymen also retaliated resulting in the death of the two. As per the guidelines of the anti-insurgency Unified Command Structure, the army, police and para-military forces should coordinate their actions, but the slain personnel had not done it, official sources said. So the joint team was not aware of them coming to the area to look for militants and hence mistook them for ultras. Senior police officials have rushed to the area to investigate into the killing, the sources added. http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=56735 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
