Mizoram court issues arrest warrant against Bru leader
Aizawl: An arrest warrant was issued against A Sawibunga, President of the Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Forum (MBDPF,) by a Mamit district court after the police failed to produce him before it. Senior Civil Judge of Mamit district court also directed the district police Friday to produce the Bru leader before him on October 14. The judge had earlier issued an arrest arrest on August 28 and instructed the police to produce Sawibunga on September 19. The police had claimed that the MBDPF chief could not be arrrested as he is residing in a relief camp in Tripura. The court’s orders came after Young Mizo Association filed a petition alleging that Sawibunga had, in a newspaper report in January this year, falsely accused Mizo people of assaulting Bru people and driving them out from their homes. (PTI)
Arunachal Guv expresses concern over violence on NE people in Delhi
Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Nirbhay Sharma has expressed deep concern over allegedly increasing incidents of violence on people of the north east in the national capital and has spoken to his Delhi counterpart on it. Sharma, who condemned the assault of a lady advocate and a nurse from Mizoram, spoke to his Delhi counterpart Lt Governor Najeeb Jung over telephone Friday and requested him to take up the two incidents on a priority basis to expedite investigation, a Raj Bhawan communique said on Saturday. Cases of physical injury including murders, assaults and many other discriminating and prejudicial incidents ‘have to be stopped by all means’. Sharma said a large number of people from Arunachal Pradesh, specially students go to Delhi to pursue higher studies or to seek jobs. He emphasised on measures for augmenting the safety of the north eastern people in Delhi and to restore the confidence and faith of the people from the north east, particularly from Arunachal Pradesh, the communique added. (PTI)
Abducted Naga social worker found dead in Manipur
Imphal: The body of an abducted Naga social worker was recovered from an interior area of Imphal East district of Manipur, police officials said Saturday. The body of Ngamreishang Ningshen, former Vice-president of Tangkhul Katamnao Saklong (TKS) which is an important Tangkhul Naga civil organisation, was recovered from Thayong village area on Friday. Ningshen (38), who came from his native Ukhrul district to the house of a relative at Imphal, was abducted by at least five persons on September 17, they said. The family members of Ningshen, whose body bore several injury marks, suspected involvement of a hill-based militant outfit in the kidnapping and killing as they had allegedly received threats from the group, which branded the social worker as an informer of the security personnel, the officials said. (PTI)
Cartoonist threatened
Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has expressed serious concern at recent threats to cartoonist Champak Barbara, who is engaged with The Assam Tribune group of newspapers, by a miscreant. The miscreant has reportedly being threatening Barbara over telephone with dire consequences. Barbara has already lodged a complaint with the Chandmari police station in this regard, but the police are yet to get any breakthrough till date. The JFA has urged state police chief Khagen Sarma to take initiative to nab the culprit such that the journalists can perform their duties without any fear and trepidation. (UNI)