Guwahati: Assam Police have asked Oil India Limited (OIL) to remain alert against possible kidnapping of its officials and subversive activities on its installations by Ulfa-1 in the current month.
The outfit, which is working with the state government through informal channels to initiate peace talks, has reacted strongly to the alert issued by the police saying that the outfit does not have any such plan against OIL.
The outfit’s publicity wing in a statement said it senses “vested interest” of a few top officials of Assam Police behind the issuing of alert letter to OIL.
On Tuesday, Dibrugarh SP (district special branch), in a letter to OIL’s general manager (security) at its field headquarters at Duliajan in Dibrugarh, said “reliable intelligence inputs” indicate that Ulfa-I and its supporters are planning subversive activities in Dibrugarh.
“They may kidnap/target men from oil installations for their vested interest. Further, you are requested to augment the security of the oil rigs/workover rigs by deploying armed security guards where unarmed local security guards are presently manning,” the police letter adds.
Police have asked OIL to alert the security components deployed at the vital installations and vulnerable strategic locations till February 28.
The alert also suggested joint security and mobile patrolling with local police at frequent intervals to “neutralize such nefarious design” of the outfit.
Last year, the outfit had abducted three employees of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) from its Lakwa oilfield in Sivasagar district along the Assam-Nagaland border. Two employees were rescued three days later after an encounter near the India-Myanmar border in Mon district of Nagaland, while the third one was released by the militants after 31 days near the international border.
The outfit had also abducted two employees of the Quippo Oil and Gas Infrastructure last year and released them after three-and-half months.
The outfit, which is working with the state government through informal channels to initiate peace talks, has reacted strongly to the alert issued by the police saying that the outfit does not have any such plan against OIL.
The outfit’s publicity wing in a statement said it senses “vested interest” of a few top officials of Assam Police behind the issuing of alert letter to OIL.
On Tuesday, Dibrugarh SP (district special branch), in a letter to OIL’s general manager (security) at its field headquarters at Duliajan in Dibrugarh, said “reliable intelligence inputs” indicate that Ulfa-I and its supporters are planning subversive activities in Dibrugarh.
“They may kidnap/target men from oil installations for their vested interest. Further, you are requested to augment the security of the oil rigs/workover rigs by deploying armed security guards where unarmed local security guards are presently manning,” the police letter adds.
Police have asked OIL to alert the security components deployed at the vital installations and vulnerable strategic locations till February 28.
The alert also suggested joint security and mobile patrolling with local police at frequent intervals to “neutralize such nefarious design” of the outfit.
Last year, the outfit had abducted three employees of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) from its Lakwa oilfield in Sivasagar district along the Assam-Nagaland border. Two employees were rescued three days later after an encounter near the India-Myanmar border in Mon district of Nagaland, while the third one was released by the militants after 31 days near the international border.
The outfit had also abducted two employees of the Quippo Oil and Gas Infrastructure last year and released them after three-and-half months.
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