Tensions rise as Mizoram names CM Himanta Biswa Sarma in violence FIR

Saturday, 31 July 2021Newsdesk

The border dispute between Assam and Mizoram has turned into a full-blown crisis when Assam summoned six officials of Mizoram’s Kolasib district and sent police after the state’s lone Rajya Sabha MP.

New Delhi, 31 July 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express, Mizoram retaliated by disclosing that police of Kolasib district — it borders Assam’s Cachar district and its SP is among six summoned by Assam — had lodged an FIR on July 26, the day of the incident, against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and six officials. The dispute started when six Assam Police personnel and a civilian were killed in violent clashes along the border of the two states. For the last month, a tense eyeball-to-eyeball situation has prevailed at the Assam-Mizoram border along the Cachar-Kolasib districts, with security personnel of both states deployed there.

Source -indianexpress.com