AIZAWL/SILCHAR: Fresh tension was reported along the Assam-Mizoram border as the two states accused each other of constructing roads, security camps, and bunkers and urged all such activity be stopped and new structures dismantled. Kolasib (Mizoram) Deputy Commissioner H Lalthlangliana, in a letter to his Hailakandi counterpart Rohan Jha, alleged that Assam Police personnel had, at gunpoint, kidnapped JCB operator Lalngaisanga on Thursday while he was constructing a private road on the request of the 'Jhum' farmers (shifting cultivators).
"The Assam Police went to disrupt their activity, damaged the door of the excavator, and snatched the keys from the JCB operator, who was blindfolded and kidnapped. He was then dragged by the river, his clothes ripped off, and life threatened. His mobile phone along with JCB keys was taken by the Assam Police," the Kolasib DC said in his letter.
Terming it "a very serious issue" and a "huge setback" towards the initiatives for peace until now, he said that it can further aggravate the situation.
Meanwhile, Jha, in his letter to his Kolasib counterpart, sought the dismantling of two camps and a bunker, set up by the Mizoram Police on August 26 in reserve forest at Kachurthal-Balicherra area along the border. (IANS)
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