Houses burnt in N Cachar again, bandh in Bodo dists

Haflong/Guwahati: Unabated violence continued in strife-torn North Cachar Hills district of Assam where 40 houses in a Dimasa tribal village were set ablaze on Monday despite stepped-up security. Suspected Zemi Naga tribals fired and hurled hand grenades on Didiupi village and set ablaze the houses, police said. There was no report of any casualty. Security have been stepped up in the trouble-torn district particularly after the arrest of DHD(J) chief Jewel Gorlosa, who is currently in NIA custody.

Meanwhile, normal life was paralysed in four Assam districts following a call for a bandh on Saturday by the Bodo People’s Progressive Front in protest against a series of killings allegedly targeting its members and sympathisers. The immediate provocation for the bandh in the Bodoland Territorial Council-administered districts of Kokrajhar, Baska, Chirang and Udalguri, was the murder of Hari Chandra Boro, president of the Koklabari Anchalik unit of the party in Baska district on Friday.

BPPF president Rabiram Narzary said that as many as six members of his party had been killed since the LS elections.