Police OP plan at disputed area opposed
Source: Chronicle News Service
Thoubal, November 03 2021:
While denouncing the plan to set up a police outpost in the disputed area of Lilong Chingakham Ching, Lilong Chingkham Development Organisation has said that Lilong denizens will not allow construction of the outpost, houses on encroached roads and occupation of Khas Land.
Speaking to media persons on Wednesday, Organisation secretary Md Aslam Khan pointed out that Karampat Loukol, which is on the northern side of the hills and Tharoipokpi Loukol on the southern end, are equally distributed among the Kabui brethren and people of Lilong and Chingakham Ching is being kept as Khas land for the peopp.
In 1968, the state, government issued an order classifying the land as occupied and unoccupied.
Conflicts over the land occurred when the Kabuis tried to occupy the unoccupied land after selling their share, he recounted.
It is unfortunate that a Kabui born in Chingakham when he was SDO of Lilong registered patta of the said Khas land secretly without the approval of the government, Md Aslam alleged, while adding that the impasse regarding the Lilong Chingakham Ching is yet to be solved till now.
Lilong people will not allow the government, turning a blind eye and taking up activities discriminately for Kabui only despite a case still pending in the court since 2012, he made it clear.
Md Aslam further said that the police out post could not be set up in the area which is within zero kilometre of Lilong police station.
The area should be kept for public use.
It is illogical that the police outpost is going to be set up to protect the Kabuis as there is no occurrence of any crime till now.
Moreover, it will create hatred and division among the two communities, he added.
He slammed the SDO Lilong and its starters for hot informing the people settling around Chingakham Ching while demarcating the land.
How could there be any demarcation without the knowledge of the owners, he enquired and urged the government to look into the matter at the earliest.