The recent violence in Cachar district, along the Assam-Mizoram border, was “perpetrated” by the police force in the neighbouring state, an all-party delegation of the Assembly here that had visited the site of the incident said on Friday.
In its report tabled in the Assam Assembly, the team also said that the incident “was nothing but a cold-blooded massacre”, with no effort on the part of the Mizoram Police to control the mob on its side.
The delegation noted that the “Mizoram Police along with some miscreants indulged in encroachment activities” in Assam, and claimed that the border dispute has been festering for long due to this reason.
Six Assam Police personnel have been killed in a bloody battle alongside the interstate boundary on July 26.
In its observations, the group stated that the “unlucky incident was perpetrated by the Mizoram Police”.
It maintained that the difficulty of encroachment needs to be pursued with the central authorities and accordingly, an all-party delegation, headed by the Speaker, should go to Delhi quickly to fulfill Union Home Minister Amit Shah and different central leaders on this connection.
“From the attacking model of Mizoram, it could possibly be apparently stated that it was nothing however a cold-blooded bloodbath resulting in heavy casualties,” the report said.
According to the report, IGP Anurag Agarwal, who was on the incident website, advised the delegation that “land encroachments, violations within the type of development of camps, roads, and so on within the occupied land by Mizoram throughout the constitutional boundary of Assam have been on the root of the discord”.
A joint group of Cachar district civil and police administrations, together with deputy commissioner Keerthi Jalli, IGP Agarwal, DIG (southern vary) D Mukherjee, superintendent of police Viabhav C Nimbalkar and Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), Cachar, Tejas Mariswamy, had visited Lailapur in Cachar on July 26.
A day earlier, the DFO had submitted a requisition for police personnel to accompany him as he sought to serve notices on officers of Mizoram, primarily based on preliminary offence report registered by him underneath varied sections of the Assam Forest Regulation Act, 1891, the delegation stated .
While officers on the opposite facet refused to just accept the notices, Mizoram Police personnel “in heavy numbers” arrived on the scene, the report outlined.
During discussions between the 2 sides that lasted for greater than two hours, the Assam group tried to serve the notices which have been refused by the Mizoram officers, and within the meantime, “miscreants from Mizoram’s Vairengte city and surrounding areas gathered within the space armed with sharp weapons and air weapons and attacked the on-duty Assam authorities officers, grievously injuring a number of of them,” stated the all-party delegation report.
Kolasib SP Vanlalfaka Ralte had abruptly left the spot after receiving a telephone name and “out of the blue there was an unprovoked heavy firing from computerized weaponry together with machine weapons from Mizoram facet, geared toward Assam authorities officers current,” the report stated.
Thereafter, the Assam Police took place and fired in self-defence, however their counterparts and accompanying miscreants have been at a vantage place, the delegation claimed.
IGP Agarwal, in his deposition earlier than the Assembly panel, additional stated that the firing continued for greater than half-an-hour, with none provocation from the Assam Police.
He additionally stated Mizoram was finishing up development work on the reserve forest land throughout the territory of Assam, in violation of the legislation.
The Assembly delegation, in the course of the go to on July 31, met representatives of assorted members of ethnic communities, who have been unanimously of their demand for a everlasting resolution to the border dispute.
Assembly Speaker Biswajit Daimary, who led the 17-member group, after consultations with varied stakeholders, stated that the Assam authorities would positively take pressing measures to unravel the difficulty amicably, the report said.
He additionally stated that “primitive legal guidelines” framed in the course of the British regime are inflicting hindrances in enterprise developmental actions, including that the Assam authorities will, nonetheless, all the time act in accordance with the legislation.
