Mokokchung, August 24 (MExN): In connection to news reports of assault on a member of Survival Nagaland which was published in local dailies, and other reports posted on social media alleging the presence of illegal immigrants in the area as claimed by one Talisunep Longkumer, the Chungtiayimsen Village Council has in a press release informed that it summoned the claimant on August 22 to deliberate in the village panchayat.
According to the village council, Longkumer admitted that he had furnished the authorities with wrong information and that there was “no proof” that illegal immigrants were residing in the concerned area, and that “the allegations were false and baseless”.
On realization of the problem caused due to the false report, Longkumer apologised before the village council and the matter has been settled peacefully between the two parties according to customary laws, the council informed.
