Nagaland Civilian Killings: Police Name 30 Soldiers in Charge Sheet Responsible for Ambush

DIMAPUR: Thirty Army special forces soldiers have been named in a Nagaland Police chargesheet over a botched ambush that killed 14 civilians in 2021.

The state police chief mentioned their Particular Investigation Crew, or SIT, has given the chargesheet to the courtroom. It names one Military officer and 29 jawans.

Further, the SIT investigation indicated the 21 Para Particular Forces troopers didn't comply with SOPs through the ambush that killed 14 civilians returning dwelling in a pickup truck in the evening. A soldier died in a subsequent assault by villagers, who surrounded the jawans in anger, after the incident on December 4, 2021.

Meanwhile, the Nagaland authorities have requested the centre for permission to behave in opposition to the troopers named within the chargesheet.

The state police have additionally despatched a letter to the Defence Ministry, asking for sanction to take motion.

The counter-insurgency ambush occurred after a unit of the 21 Para Particular Forces thought they noticed a looking rifle in a truck that was coming alongside the Tiru-Oting highway of Nagaland's Mon district on December 4.

The forces, which laid an ambush for insurgents, instantly opened fire, killing six of the coal miners who had been within the truck. Two others, who had been injured, had been taken to the hospital by the military. The matter went out of hand as villagers arrived and attacked the troops with machetes and killed certainly one of them on the spot, slashing his throat.

Thus with this, a renewed name for withdrawing AFSPA had begun in Nagaland, with protesters taking out marches.

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