Assam Rifles (AR) on Thursday has rubbished the contention of NSCN (I-M) Kyong region that their cadres were frisking anti social elements on Wokha-Merapani road. PRO, IGAR (N) in a release stated that incidents were reported where certain armed cadres were forcefully stopping vehicles for extortion causing constant harassment adding it was a gross violation of laid down CFGR. <\/p>\n
The AR alleged that utter disrespect for CFGR was displayed by the cadres on two accounts, firstly, armed cadres moving freely outside designated camps with weapons like M 21 Chinese rifle and secondly act of forceful extortion from commuters plying on highways. <\/p>\n
The AR claimed that on November 14 and 15 the armed cadres stopped AR vehicle considering it as yet another \u201clucrative vehicle for extortion\u201d when they were chased and nabbed. <\/p>\n
On November 15, one of the cadres on being surrounded gave orders to fire to his accomplice who pointed the weapon M 21 Chinese rifle on the chest of AR personnel when he was overpowered before he could cock his weapon, the AR stated. AR showed respect for rules and restrain of exceptional order, it claimed. <\/p>\n
The AR felt that such menacing acts committed by armed cadres in public domain were source of perennial harassment to villagers and transients and further stated that the nabbing of armed cadres was appreciated which was received as a feedback from the villagers. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe consistent harassment of masses in the form of extortion during forthcoming Christmas and New Year period reflects utter disregard to the sentiments of the Naga masses\u201d which would be contained by AR personnel at all cost with utmost dedication for the well being of general public, the AR said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Assam Rifles (AR) on Thursday has rubbished the contention of NSCN (I-M) Kyong region that their cadres were frisking anti social elements on Wokha-Merapani road. PRO, IGAR (N) in a release stated that incidents were reported where certain armed cadres were forcefully stopping vehicles for extortion causing constant harassment adding it was a gross violation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}