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Vigil stepped up along Myanmar border

IMPHAL: The Assam Rifles, guarding the 398-km Manipur-Myanmar border, has stepped up vigil to ensure that pro-democracy activists and students from that country do not infiltrate into India following the military crackdown there.

Both ground patrolling and aerial surveillance by unmanned small aircraft along the border have been intensified.

Lt. Gen. M.S. Dadwal, commander, 3 Corps, who visited the border town of Moreh, held talks with Assam Rifles officers on tightening security.

In the recent past, Assam Rifles personnel nabbed 18 foreigners — 15 at Moreh and three others, who were travelling towards Imphal, at Khudengthabi.

All of them are lodged in jail.

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