Miscreants threaten Assam residents; DM Hailakandi asks Mizoram counterpart to take immediate action

Hailakandi District Magistrate Adil Khan has asked his Kolashib counterpart of Mizoram to take precautionary measures as reports of some miscreants threatening residents of Hailakandi living inside Assam’s territory has started to surface. As per reports the Mizoram based miscreants are asking residents living in the state border to leave the area, if they don’t, they would face dire consequences is what the miscreants are threatening.

“We have received information that some miscreants from Mizoram side have threatened the residents of Hailakandi living inside Assam’s territory to leave the area or face dire consequences, ” said Khan.

Khan asked his counterpart to take necessary action to avoid any untoward incident along the inter-state border.

Assam and Mizoram have a long-standing boundary dispute, and there had been tension in the Hailakandi-Kolashib region several times in the past too. Trouble erupted at this particular stretch of the inter-state border in March last year.