Assam police arrest 40 encroachers
Source: The Sangai Express / Newmai News Network
Dimapur, March 10 2014 :
While intensifying cracking down on the encroachers from Nagaland, Assam police today arrested 40 persons from Nagaland in the border area.
Sources said the Assam police swooped down on the Nagaland encroachers at Kashiram Sector and Rangapahar area today and arrested 40 Nagas.
The first incident at Kashiram took place in the morning while the Rangapahar area incident took place in the afternoon.
Reports said all the arrested persons from Nagaland are now in the custody of Diphu police station, Karbi Anglong district of Assam.
These 40 land encroachers from Nagaland will be produced in the court in Diphu tomorrow, the reports added.
Today's incident was a second such crack-down by the security force personnel on land encroachers of Nagaland after the recent flare-up on the border row.
On March 1, Nagaland security force personnel came down heavily on the people from Nagaland encroaching the Assam land when the IRB (Indian Reserve Battalion) personnel resorted to blank-fires in the Nagaland side of the border adjacent to Shankar Tila border outpost of Assam police.
The IRB personnel's action came a day after the indefinite economic embargo was provisionally lifted by agitating civil societies of Karbi Anglong district .