Unidentified gunmen abducted a tea garden executive in Golaghat district of Assam on Tuesday night.
Police suspect a newly-formed tribal militant outfit to behind the abduction.
Police informed that suspected militants abducted the manager of Shyamraipur Tea Estate, R K Singh, at gunpoint near his official bungalow under Numaligarh Police station of Golaghat district while he was returning from Golaghat town.
The militants, who were waiting near the tea estate, commandeered the tea executive out his car at gunpoint and took him away leaving behind the car and his driver. Police believe that the kidnappers had taken the tea executive to the adjoining Karbi Anglong hill district, which is infested with tribal insurgents.
The executives working in tea estates of Assam stand vulnerable to militants' threat given the interior locations of the tea gardens and lack of security cover. The tea estates are soft targets of militants' extortion demands. Assam police has found it difficult to provide security to tea executives manning over 800
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