DIMAPUR, MAY 15 (MExN): The Central Nagaland Tribes Council (CNTC) today appealed to the National Investigating Agency (NIA) to “exercise some restraint on those state government employees and officers of Nagaland presently arrested in the extortion case for allegedly providing substantial amounts from the government funds to some underground outfits.”
A press note from the CNTC stated that government employees are “always under threat and extreme duress from various outfits as it is impossible to provide security to each and every official at all times.”
Despite trying to provide round the clock vigil by the state police and security agencies, it becomes almost impossible to guard all and sundry, it added. Stating that the Government of India has “every right to act according to its law,” the CNTC added “it must also understand through its good wisdom that due to the inability of bringing some factions on a common table for talks to resolve the decades old Naga political imbroglio, some factions are adamant to impose taxes on the public and the government employees for which they are always at the receiving end.”
The CNTC therefore appealed to the GoI to “demonstrate its goodwill on its citizens that the government officers arrested were all acting under immense pressure and coercion and so they should be shown some leniency for which they had no other alternative.”
