Karaiba Chawang
Kohima | February 6
Two boys from Jalukielwa village, Peren were abducted by villagers from neighboring Shekuto and Nihoi villages at around 10 am today. Sources said the two boys, Keluilung, 13, son of Kuzin and his cousin Janson, 18, along with their mother, Tuibuile, were in their field when some armed Shekuto and Nihoi villagers came and abducted the two boys at gunpoint.
Following the abduction of the two teenage boys, the whole of Peren district was today thrown into tizzy as tension reeled throughout the day, ahead of the proposed Wednesday dawn-to-dusk bandh called by Zeliangrong Students’ Union, Nagaland and All Zeliangrong Students’ Union (Assam, Manipur and Nagaland), in protest against encroachment into Itangki National Park by ‘outsider villages’.
Source also said that the mother of one of the boys was abducted. However, she was freed but not before receiving a blow with a gun butt. The two boys were taken away with their hands tied and blinded-folded to an unknown location.
However, a caller later informed the Jalukie police station that the two boys had been taken to Shekuto and Nihoi village, but, when the police searched the two villages, the boys could not be located and the police returned to Jalukie empty-handed, source said.
At the time of filing this report, the two boys were reported to be under the custody of their abductors at Zutovi village, and the police and district administration from Peren are ready to launch a rescue operation. It is learnt that the two villages, Shekuto and Nihoi are unrecognized villages, and are in dispute with Jalukielwa village. The two apex students’ bodies of the Zeliangrong tribe of Peren district has called for a dawn to dusk bandh tomorrow in protest against the land encroachment by “land mongers’, especially in the Intanki National Park area, and the state government’s failure to evict the encroachers despite several reminders.
Today’s situation was also worsened due to absence of an SDO (C) in Jalukie, as people frantically tried to locate the abducted boys with the help of the district administration. SDO (C) has not been posted at Jalukie for the last one month. Meanwhile, the Zeliangrong students’ Union and Jalukie Students’ Union has registered strong condemnation over the incident. The two students’ bodies has asked the state government to immediately post the SDO (C) at Jalukie as the situation is becoming more volatile.
