Dimapur, November 3 (MExN): Kiphire’s Seyochung town, with eleven villages under its jurisdiction and a growing population, has no police check gate. This has led to a backlog of criminal cases and “FIRs,” the students of the Seyochung area today stated in a representation addressed to the Director General of Police. The DGP was requested to instate a check post and additional police personnel for the said area.
The Seyochung Area Students’ Union said a police check gate for the area was imperative. The area comprises of Seothsing, Thangthure, Old Monger, New Monger, Shotomi, Phesami, Yingphire, Thsingar, Lukhami and Yangzitong. Seyochung town has a rising population of more than forty six thousand, recorded as the oldest administrative block (outpost) under Kiphire district. The police outpost at Seyochung town has many cases and ‘FIRs’ lodged against criminal or such cases, “but it is to our utter surprise that no effective results and justice has been delivered by the police department to the entire area due to lack of adequate personnel to tackle the cases and many unsolved cases has been kept in pending for a decade where the general public are still awaiting justice from the concern department.”
The SASU took special note of “rampant overflow of illegal goods and products such as drugs and Indian Made Foreign Liquor with varieties of branded” goods crossing Seyochung town and over to the border road directly or indirectly. This, the students said, is affecting Kiphire district. The trend has encouraged drug trafficking, while the flow of illegal migrants is rising tremendously alongside corruption and abductions of civilians by “unknown forces” due to “free passes from the main center (Seyochung Town) with no single frisking and checking point.”
“Yes, we as an NGO part used to conduct surprise checking with the concern of the police and excise departments in the lining point; however it cannot stop the overflow of illegal products for a life time and need the police personnel to erect the check post to control such illegal flow from the neighboring districts,” the SASU said in its representation appended by its president Lichumse Sangtam and general secretary Kyupise Anar.
The students made the fervent appeal to the Director General Police, the Minister for Home and the MLA in concern, to take the matter seriously and initiate remedial measures to provide a post of police for Seyochung town with additional personnel.
