The Dimapur Chamber of Commerce and Industry has informed that no directive was issued to business owners to shut shop on December 13. Youths going around town asking shops to close down were reported on Monday evening further fuelling rumours that the DCCI has called for a business closure. DCCI president Hukivi Chishi clarified on Monday night that no such directive was issued.
NTC condemns state govt’s shocking action
DIMAPUR, DECEMBER 12 (MExN): The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) today condemned the state government’s action to arrest the ACAUT members, and termed this action as shocking.
A press note from the NTC stated that “this lightning speed action of the State to arrest and constrain the activists is shocking since in numerous cases where FIRs are being lodged by the concerned citizens on many corruption and criminal cases are kept in cold storage without any visible action from the law enforcing agencies.”
“It is a clear case of Government trying to protect the illegal operators to save those people in authority and holding public offices from possible exposure,” the NTC stated.
It reasoned that the action of the ACAUT is “well justifiable without any doubt since the public deserve to know the truth behind the nefarious operations in the storehouses and they don’t have any ulterior motive or vested interest in checking the stores.” The NTC asked for “unconditional release” of the activists and lamented, “for no concrete reason, a fake counter FIR has been lodged by the complainant and it is very unbecoming for the State to act upon such an FIR without proper inquiry.”
