New Delhi: Security will be beefed up in the north-eastern region in the wake of the terror strike at Thinghat near the Myanmar border in Manipur's Churachandpur district, Lieutenant General Pradeep Chandran Nair, the Director General (DG) of Assam Rifles, said.
Speaking to Manorama News, the DG said the intelligence wing would be further strengthened besides augmenting technology-based regulations for tackle cross-border movement.
He was responding for the first time since a November 13 ambush on an Assam Rifles convoy.
Colonel Viplav Tripathi, the Commanding Officer of the Khuga Battalion, and four riflemen were killed in the attack that also claimed the lives of Col. Tripathi's wife and son.
Lt General Nair added that the insurgents have the backing of China. The separatist militant groups are engaged in large-scale drug trade by misusing an India-Myanmar agreement streamlining the free movement of people within 16 kilometres along the border, he added.