16% posts in Assam police lying vacant Guwahati, July 25 (PTI): Over 16 per cent posts out of more than 72,000 in Assam Police are currently lying vacant, the Assembly was informed today. In a written reply to a question by AGP MLA Phani Bhusan Choudhury, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary said 11,782 posts are lying vacant at present out of 72,118 sanctioned posts in Assam Police. "Of these vacant posts, the process to fill 4,076 posts is going on," Patowary informed the House on behalf of the Home Minister. He said 20 posts of Indian Police Service and 114 posts for Assam Police Service are lying vacant, while 107 IPS and 456 APS officers are working in the state at present. This vacancy has also led to pendency of as many as 62,041 different types of cases across 346 police stations and 221 outposts in the state. Two NDFB-S cadres killed Guwahati, July 25 (PTI): Two hardcore NDFB-S militants who were allegedly planning to target security forces in Assam in the run-up to Independence Day have been killed in Kokrajhar district of Assam. After receiving inputs on the movement of militants, a joint team of the Indian Army and the Assam police launched an operation in the early hours of Monday morning, during which a group of terrorists fired indiscriminately on them. "The team retaliated with controlled fire and neutralised two terrorists. These terrorists were identified as Pungkha Narzary and Jwngsr Basumatary. Both terrorists were of the 42 batch and were involved in numerous subversive activities including extortion, kidnapping and were planning to target security forces camps and convoys in the run-up to Independence Day," an army official said. Two pistols, some ammunition, two grenades and other warlike stores were recovered from the militants.
