Agartala, March 19 -- Tension ran high at Kailashahar, the headquarters of Unakoti district in Tripura on Wednesday after a face-off erupted between two influential groups surrounding a multi-crore worth government contract of the Water Resource Department.

Tension escalated further when miscreants set a motorcycle on fire in front of the office of the Executive Engineer Water Resource Department, prompting the deployment of cops and Tripura State Rifle troopers.

In order to defuse the tension, a large number of police and TSR personnel under the leadership of SDPO Kailashahar Jayanta Karmakar cordoned off the office compound.

Sources said that ADN Constructions of Kailashahar received the tender worth Rs 3.40 crore.

The construction ...