NAGALAND COPS CHARGESHEET 30 PARATROOPERS OVER BOTCHED OP

Dimapur, June 11: Nagaland Police has charge-sheeted at least 30 members of the 21 Para Special Force including a Major, in the December

4, 2021 botched army operations in Oting-Tiru area of Mon district when at least 13 civilians died.

The chargesheet has slapped charges of murder and culpable homicide not amounting to murder under on the team of soldiers.

The probe which preceded the charge sheet has found that the Special Force Operation team had not followed the Standard Operating Procedure and Rules of Engagement and had resorted to indiscriminate and disproportionate firing leading to immediate death of six civilians and grievous injury to two more.

Addressing a press meet at Chumoukedima Police Complex on Saturday, Director General of Police (DGP), Nagaland, T. John Longkumer said that the Tizit Police Station case related to the Oting incident where civilians were killed in an ambush laid for militants as a result of mistaken identity on December 4, 2021.

The case was re-registered by State Crime Police Station on December 5 against unknown persons of the Indian Army under sections 302,

304 and 34 IPC and investigation handed over to a Special Investigation Team (SIT).

“A professional and thorough investigation was carried out by the SIT” in this case, he said adding that various evidences including relevant important documents from various authorities and sources, scientific opinions from Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) Guwahati, Hyderabad and Chandigarh and other technical evidences.