AGARTALA, July 6: The outlawed All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) has once again intensified its campaign against `foreigners living in the tribal belt' by serving them with a quit notice.

In a copy circulated to the press it threatened these `foreigners' would have to face the consequences if they did not heed the notice. The notice was attested by the ATTF's self-styled commander, Ranjit Debbarma.

The ATTF, banned by the union home ministry in April 1996, directed non-tribal villagers and traders whose names were not enlisted in the voter list of 1951 to leave Tripura forthwith.

Stating that those who had not enlisted their names in the voters list could not be identified as the citizens of the state; the notice called for `driving them out'.

Many villagers, traders and government employees, particularly in the disturbed Khowai sub-division of the West Tripura district, have reportedly received the quit notice.yy

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