Orders under Section 144 CrPC have been clamped prohibiting carrying of arms and weapons by members of the public within an area of 5 km from the state boundary with Assam, official sources said here today.
Elections in Assam are slated for April 4 and 11.
The order would remain in force until further orders, it said.
Certain pockets along the disputed Assam-Meghalaya boundary are known for frequent tension.
Altogether 12 people were killed, some 50,000 people were displaced and over 2,000 houses torched in the 9-day ethnic riots in January in Meghalaya�s East Garo Hills and Assam�s Goalpara districts.