An explosive device was hurled at a business establishment in Dimapur on the intervening night of February 2 and 3. The explosion, suspected to be an act of intimidation, reportedly occurred sometime after midnight at NST colony. No injury to life was reported.
Discovered only in the morning, the explosive landed outside the perimeter fencing of Ankit Transport Warehouse, leaving shrapnel marks on the brick wall, police said. Unsolicited monetary demands are being deduced to be behind the incident but police said that the warehouse management denied receiving any such demands.
The NST Colony Welfare Committee, Dimapur Town, while condemning the incident, termed it as an “act of intimidation” on citizens and business community residing in the locality. The Committee, through a press release, stated that any activity resorting to elicit wrongful gain by means of threat or intimidation cannot be justified by civilised rule of law. “The premeditated and deliberate act by employing terror tactic should be condemned by one and all in unison,” the release stated, while urging law enforcing agencies and the district administration to thoroughly investigate the matter and arrest the perpetrator(s). Further demanding that the motive behind the blast be unearthed and brought to light, the release asserted that such incidents occurring in a civilian populated area should not be taken lightly.
