Acting on specific information from the police about a suspicious object found on Patiladaha-Panbari Road in the district, troops under the Red Horns Division accompanied by Army Bomb Disposal personnel carried out thorough search, a defence spokesman said.
During the search, the IED was found under a culvert and was later defused, the spokesman said.
In another incident, a militant of the Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam (MULTA) was nabbed in a joint operation by the Army and police forces from Baijer Alga village in Dhubri district today, he said.