Government officials are yet to confirm any case of either casualty or injury in the arson attack, though some locals said that an elderly villager was killed as miscreants lobbed a grenade at his residence in Chainpur locality in the hostile area.
State Home Secretary GD Tripathi said that senior police officials and top officials from the State government today rushed to the spot for a discussion with a team of Nagaland government delegates to tackle the situation. Additional troops of CRPF were reportedly deployed in the area for controlling the situation.
The locals alleged that the CRPF personnel, who were deployed as a neutral force as per the Supreme Court’s order, remained mute spectators to the situation and refrained from taking initiatives to provide security to them.
Expressing their anger over the State government’s failure in providing security to the villagers, several agitating youths and elderly citizens staged a protest in front of Uriamghat Police Station, where Sorupathar MLA Aklius Tirkey was also confined for an hour by the mob. “We demand deployment of Assam Rifles personnel instead of CRPF,”said an elderly citizen.