Terrorist outfits almost always innovate on terror tactics, but the latest innovation of bicycles, which are moving bombs, could mean a demand on innovative policing from now on.
A couple of days ago, Baishya, an ULFA militant was arrested with a bicycle in Guwahati. The police didn't suspect it could be an explosive device. The bicycle lay untouched at the police station till Baishya confessed.
''Earlier we used to have info of bombs kept on cycles now we have cycles filled with bombs. Our job is now tougher, as we have to increase our intelligence. They have used two chemicals PETN and TNT,'' said Debojit Hazarika, SP, Kamrup.
Be it Malegaon in Maharashtra or Tinsukia in upper Assam, militants have been using bicycles only to carry explosives.
Last year in Assam, blasts involving bicycles killed 16 people and injured over a hundred. This has made the bicycle an object of suspension and threat. But Baishya's revelation has stunned the police.
In the last one-year there have been 17 blasts, which were bicycle borne.
Any amount of surveillance is not enough to restrict the movement of terror bicycles and this recovery should make the government change its gear, as soft-pedalling on terror outfits has given the militants time and space to spread its web.
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