The Home Ministry has decided to order a probe by a retired Director-General of Police to examine the report of a CRPF Inspector-General alleging that two National Democratic Front of Bodoland-Songbjit militants were killed in a “fake encounter” by joint squad of security forces in Assam on March 30.
Rajnish Rai, a 1992-batch IPS officer of the Gujarat cadre, said he had conducted a “discreet” inquiry chronicling how a team of the Assam Police, the Army, the CRPF, its jungle warfare unit CoBRA and the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) conducted the encounter on March 29 and 30 in the Simlaguri area of Chirang district and killed what they called were two insurgents.
