Guwahati, September 04: A NSCN-IM arms dealer was apprehended by BSF during a special operation in upper Assam’s Golaghat district along Nagaland. Acting on specific information, the BSF 10 battalion troops and apprehended the arms dealer on Thursday at Barpathar railway station as he was disembarking from the Lumding-Tinsukia passenger train, BSF sources said today.

He was identified as Nick Suni(21), a resident of Dimapur in Nagaland. A search of his possesions lead to the seizure of a 9mm pistol, one magazine and three lives rounds of ammunition, the sources said. During preliminary interrogation Suni confessed to working for NSCN-IM as an arms dealer, the sources adding he was handed over to the police.

Source: Hueiyen News Service