Nagaland
Nagaland election 2023: JD(U) files FIR after its supporters were taken into custody
DIMAPUR — The Janata Dal(U) has filed a first information report (FIR) with the Wokha Police Station in connection with violent incidents perpetrated upon its supporters in 37 Tyui Assembly Constituency (AC) in Wokha district.
The office of JD(U) 37 Tyui AC stated in its FIR that two of its supporters from Koio village had been arbitrarily taken into custody on unfounded case of suspicion following the burning down of a farmhouse in the village on Friday morning. It added that it had caused mental and physical trauma to the duo, their family members and JD(U) party supporters.
In the afternoon of the same day, the party alleged that some individuals “threatened and vandalized the residence of two (2) JDU supporters at Koio village which has caused irreparable damage, in terms of trauma experienced, to the families concerned”.
It went on to state that a JD(U) supporter from New Changsu village was hospitalised after being grievously injured in the evening of the same day (February 10).
The party stated that the three incidents happening on the same day “looks suspicious enough and seems intended to wrongly frame, and at the same time, instill fear psychosis amongst JDU supporters of 37 Tyui A/C which is not only against the rule of law but also against the norm of democratic society where every individual is, by law, entitled to exercise his/her franchise without coercion, fear or favour”.
It, therefore, requested the Officer In-Charge of Wokha Police Station to speedily investigate the case and “ensure rule of law is established by booking the perpetrators, whoever they might be, at the earliest”.
Four candidates, namely Yanthungo Patton (BJP),Y Kikon (Rashtriyas Janata Dal), Senchumo Lotha (Janata Dal-United) and Hayinthung Tungoe Lotha (Independent) are in the fray for the 37 Tyui seat.
Meanwhile, the Wokha Police had earlier updated that they had detained two suspects in connection with the burning of a structure (farm house) near Seluku village in the early hours of Friday and that the duo was later bound down under Section 107 of CrPC as the complainant in the case could not positively identify the perpetrators of the incident.