Morung Express News
Dimapur | April 4
As the first phase of the Assam polls progressed, tension gripped the Dimapur-Karbi-Anglong border on April 4 as sounds of gunfire reverberated around the Daldali Reserve Forest. According to reports, some 3-4 rounds were fired in the air by Assam Police personnel reportedly to warn people from Nagaland side, who had entered the Daldali Reserve Forest. It could however not be ascertained from which side the shots were fired with police sources stating it could have been from either side. There was no report of casualty.
Defying the prohibitory order imposed by the Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur, discouraging people from entering the disputed belt of the Dimapur-Karbi-Anglong border, around a hundred people was reported to have entered the area today. It happened as the district administration reinforced police deployment along the border belt. The people, who have entered are reportedly cutting roads using machinery and building hutments.
The United Naga Tribes Association of Border Areas (UNATABA) has meanwhile condemned the incident and demanded that the Assam Police Border Out Posts (BOP) in Lahorijan, Kashiram and Shankartilla BOPs be immediately withdrawn from the present posting places.
