Stating that the Army has also engaged tracker dogs to track the insurgents, security sources said that more than 1,000 security personnel have been deployed in the area. (Representational image)

Guwahati: The Army has launched a massive counter-insurgency operation, engaging helicopters and deploying over 1,000 security personnel, to nab two top National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB-S) militants in western Assam districts adjoining the International Border with Bhutan.

Informing that the operation was launched following a specific input about the presence of two dreaded hardcore NDFB(S) militants — G Bidai and Batha — in Manas Tiger Reserve, security sources said the Army has been chasing the two rebels for more than a year, but in most of the operations they managed to escape.

Pointing out that a group of NDFB(S) militant was shuttling between India and Bhutan forest areas for the last one year, security sources said that helicopters were pressed into services to track them by air, but the Army is yet to spot them.

Earlier, security forces had snapped all the supply to the militants by busting the hideouts and arresting the sympathisers who were supplying ration and other essential to the militants. However, security sources said that even after that they have been surviving inside the deep forest areas.

Stating that the Army has also engaged tracker dogs to track the insurgents, security sources said that more than 1,000 security personnel have been deployed in the area.