Security tightened across North East ahead of I-Day

With the deployment of additional forces and intensified vigil, security has been further strengthened across the Northeastern region on Thursday ahead of the 79th Independence Day celebration on Friday, officials said.
In Manipur, security measures have been further beefed up in both the Imphal valley and hilly regions, including the state capital Imphal, for smooth conduct of Friday’s Independence Day celebrations, officials in Imphal said on Thursday.
Under close supervision of senior officials, a large contingent of the Army, Assam Rifles, the Border Security Force (BSF), the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), along with Manipur Police, have been deployed in Manipur to deal with the ethnic hostilities in the northeastern states since May 2023. As part of security measures, security forces established mobile check posts at different strategic places in Manipur to check different types of vehicles and frisked the passengers and travellers.
In Meghalaya, the BSF has sealed suspicious, vulnerable and vital stretches along the 443 km India-Bangladesh border with the mountainous state. The BSF measures have been further strengthened, given the recent attack by the Bangladeshi armed infiltrators who robbed, assaulted and attempted to kidnap a villager in the South West Khasi Hills district in Meghalaya.
On August 8, at least eight to ten armed men from Bangladesh crossed the border, stormed Rongdangai village, stabbed and injured a civilian, vandalised property, and tried to abduct a resident. According to the officials of different northeastern states, district authorities in all the bordering districts of the eight northeastern states have imposed strict restrictions on the movement and transportation of certain commodities along the India-Bangladesh border and India-Myanmar border.
The measures, enforced under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), are aimed at preventing possible infiltration by extremist elements and curbing unauthorised cross-border trade.
As per the directive, no person is permitted to move within a one-kilometre belt along the international borders in the Northeastern states between sunset and sunrise. Border Security Force (BSF) has intensified vigil and patrolling along the 1880 km India-Bangladesh border with Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya and Mizoram, while the Assam Rifles have taken similar steps 1643 km long India-Myanmar border with Mizoram, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland. In Aizawl, an Assam Rifles official said that their troopers are on high alert along the unfenced India-Myanmar border to curb any kind of infiltration from across the border. “Due to the intensified vigilance, smuggling of drugs and arms was reduced to a large extent in the recent past through the India-Myanmar borders,” the official said.