The Assam government has decided to augment the strength of its police outposts on the inter-state boundaries along south Assam to tackle extremists' incursions from neighbouring Manipur and Mizoram . <br/> <br/>The move comes in the wake of the attack by the extremists on the 15 India Reserve Battalion (IRB) border outposts at Chekarcham, a remote village in Sonai block of Cachar district on Thursday night. <br/> <br/>The extremists took away a large cache of arms and ammunition and left four policemen injured. The State director-general of police, Mr Shankar Barua has said that the state police would soon be armed with modern weapons to make them more effective against gun-toting militants in the south Assam border outposts. <br/> <br/>Jawans from the army’s 11 artillery field regiment and combatants from 147 CRPF were combing the jungles near Chekarcham along the Assam-Mizoram-Manipur border to track down the extremists. <br/> <br/>AIR Correspondent reports that Reinforcements have been sent to the area to restore normalcy as people of the area, apprehensive of yet another attack or abductions by the extremists are deserting their houses to take shelter in safer places.<br/><br/>