Dimapur, November 6 (MExN): The NSCN (IM) today alleged “serious case of state government and Assam Rifles playing a partisan role” is “coming up in the open”. The outfit referred to the November 5 capture of three NSCN (K) cadres in Kohima from a white Mahindra bolero, said to be a state government vehicle.
The NSCN (IM) in a note from its MIP said that on November 5, the 26 Assam Rifles after intercepting a white Mahindra Bolero nabbed three NSCN (K) cadres along with sophisticated weapons and ammunitions from the Cathedral area, New Minister's Hill in Kohima. “What immediately draws our attention is that this is a state government vehicle. Who sanction this vehicle to be used by K-group for anti-social works? And who is the authorized owner of the vehicle? These two questions has to be answered by the state police and Home department, because crimes goes on unabated in Kohima and Dimapur in the hands of K-group. The abduction of four businessmen from Agri and Jail Colonies in Kohima on 5 November is just the latest case in point among many such cases (many cases not reported)” the NSCN (IM) stated.
Among the three apprehended from the state government vehicle, one was identified as one Isak Sumi, “the K-group military spokes person” the MIP said. However, the NSCN (IM) said, what matters most is the leniency extended to “any arrested cadres of K-group”. According to the NSCN (IM), “had the three been NSCN members NSA would have been applied” and “this is the tragic state of treatment meted out by state police in collaboration with AR and intelligence agencies against NSCN”. Recently, the outfit said, two NSCN members, one Akato Sumi and a Hureya Sumi, were apprehended from Dimapur and were booked under NSA.
“What further irked the NSCN is the manner of raiding the areas of suspected NSCN places in Kohima and Dimapur. But taking shelter in the false reports of its intelligence sources about the hideouts of K-group, raids are hardly conducted against the K-group.
When businessmen are abducted to be slaughtered if the demanded amount is not paid, what greater crime is the state government looking for that warranted immediate action under NSA? What manner of public security measure is the state government adopting to ensure public security, particularly the businessmen who have been placed at the receiving ends” the NSCN (IM) MIP added.
