The ammunition of Chinese origin was recovered in Sonitpur district on Monday, according to DGP Gyanendra Pratap Singh. The police unearthed the cache in an operation early this morning at Bilasiguri-Batasipur village under the Dhekiajuli police station area.
He said that these arms and ammunition were buried during the active period of now-banned militant group National Democratic Front of Bodoland. According to Singh's post on X, the recovery includes five Chinese-made hand grenades, five improvised grenades, one pistol, and a revolver.
Five detonators were buried in the village. The NDFB was designed to give the Bodo people an independent Bodoland. Born out of the Bodo Security Force, formed in 1986, the NDFB had been involved in multiple attacks against security forces and non-Bodo civilians in Assam.
The group also targeted the Santhal, Munda, and Oraon adivasis—settlers whose ancestors had come to Assam as labor for the tea industry during the British era. Since 2000, the NDFB had focused its attacks on struggling Bangladeshi migrants in what it claimed to be Bodo territory. The NDFB disbanded and signed a peace accord with the government in 2020.
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