Suspected extremist gunned down in Assam

GUWAHATI

The Assam constabulary gunned down a suspected subordinate of an equipped radical successful an brushwood successful Assam’s Dima Hasao territory precocious Monday (December 1, 2025) night.

A territory constabulary serviceman said the incidental occurred astatine astir 11 p.m. adjacent Chillei colony nether the Mahur constabulary presumption aft equipped members of the Hmar People’s Convention (Democratic), oregon HPC(D), intercepted a vehicle, fired 2 rounds successful the air, and threatened the driver.

“The equipped men fired astatine the unit from a adjacent Assam Police Command Battalion campy who rushed to the spot aft proceeding the shots. One suspected militant was killed successful the retaliatory response,” the serviceman said, requesting anonymity.

The assemblage of the man, identified arsenic Modi Hmar from the district’s Jinam Valley, was sent to confederate Assam’s Silchar Medical College and Hospital for an autopsy. “He is suspected to beryllium a subordinate of the HPC(D),” the serviceman said.

The HPC(D) was formed successful 1995 arsenic an offshoot of the HPC, which came into beingness successful 1986 arsenic a governmental enactment spearheading a question for self-government successful a portion of Mizoram bordering Assam and Manipur. The HPC gravitated to an equipped gyration until signing a bid pact successful July 1994.

Active chiefly successful Mizoram, the HPC(D) has been utilizing the Bhuban elevation scope successful confederate Assam’s Cachar territory and the Jinam Valley country of Dima Hasao territory arsenic bases to program and execute its operations.