DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 7 (MExN): The NSCN (K) today denied any involvement of any of its cadres in the recent taxi driver murder case. A press note from the MIP, NSCN (K) termed it disturbing to note that two of the three accused were being identified as members of NSCN/GPRN.
In a clarification, the NSCN (K) stated that one of the accused Daniel Yimchunger “came defecting to our government claiming as Sergeant Major way back in the year 2013 but while being kept under observation/probation awaiting confirmation by the GHQ and even before the new Naga Army Registration Number could be issued, he was arrested by the security forces from Kohima and sentenced to years of imprisonment.” Since then, it informed that the accused has had “no association with our government in any capacity whatsoever was ever maintained.”
“It is also ascertained that Daniel was released from prison but chose not to join our formation and was again rearrested somewhere in the middle of 2015 again from Kohima and had been in jail ever since long after the NSCN’s abrogation of cease fire. The rest of his activities since then remain unknown. Therefore the recovery of NSCN’s tax challans implies that he is one among many extortionists committing crimes especially in and around Kohima and Dimapur in the guise of NSCN cadre by taking advantage of our restricted physical mobility,” the MIP press note stated.
Regarding the second accused, one Toishe Aye claiming to be a Captain of NSCN/GPRN, the NSCN (K) said that this was “extremely illogical and a very pathetic self-acclamation.” “Toishe is an established regular criminal and had been apprehended by Kohima and Dimapur Urban commands of NSCN/GPRN prior to 2015 on several occasions for issuing threats, extortions and committing other petty criminal offences using NSCN name,” it claimed.
The NSCN (K), it informed had even issued a “final warning and quit notice” from Dimapur and Kohima to the accused. “Toishe was never recruited, trained, enrolled or not even a defector absorbed into Naga Army formation at any point of time,” the NSCN (K) said.
Both the accused, it stated, “are jailbirds frequenting Kohima and Dimapur jails on regular intervals.” “This facts itself establishes the reality that the accused are habitual offenders and therefore quite obvious that they cannot afford themselves the burden and risk to remain enrolled in the NSCN/GPRN particularly during the present hostile situation and yet continue to freely engage themselves in criminal activities all the year round,” it added.
Denying the involvement of any of its cadres in the case, the NSCN (K) meanwhile conveyed its condolence to the aggrieved family and denounced the “vilest inhuman act of the trio and assures the Nagas that NSCN shall not remain mute or inactive should there be miscarriage of justice.”
