Asom police to set up BOPs

Silchar, Jul 10: In the wake of Mizo farmers' threat to encroach Asom land, Dispur administration has decided to set up at least two border police outposts and five watch towers along 119-km Assam- Mizoram interstate border, official sources said here on Monday.
Hailakandi Deputy Commissioner Shankar Prasad Kakoti Bora said Assam government is concerned following All Mizo Farmers Union's threat to use arms in an aim to encroach Asom land in Barak Valley areas of South Asom.

This made the Asom government strengthen security arrangement and tighten vigil along the interstate border. Bora said the work for setting up of these BOPs and watchtowers will be started within next couple of days.

DC Bora along with Hailakandi SP Anand Mohan Tiwari and other police and CRPF officials on yesterday visited the interstate border to take stock of the situation there Mizo Farmers Union's threat.

Hailakandi police on June 27 arrested four persons, residents of Mizoram at Kachurthal area in this district for working on Asom farmland. The work was being carried out at the instance of first Mizoram Chief Minister Ch. Chhunga's son.

The Mizo Farmers' Union President R Lalduhawma on last Sunday while addressing the media in Aizawl claimed that Mizoram's first chief minister Ch. Chhunga owns a lot of farmland in Bhaicherra near Bhairavi in Mizoram and they vowed to ensure that farmwork undertaken by Chhunga's son is completed despite Asom police stopped the same.

Hailakandi DC, however, said the four persons were working well inside Asom areas on that days and they were rounded up. A Hailakandi court however later granted their bail applications.

UNI