KANUBARI, May 8: A group of suspected NSCN K-YA militants has abducted a Gaon Burah of Lauksim village of Kanubari Subdivision under Longding District on the evening of May 7 last.
As per the reports, the abduction took place on the intervening night of May 7th last around 10:30 pm when a group of five NSCN- K-YA factions led by Self Style Corporal Wanglem Wangsu abducted the GB and taken toward Nagaland, informed Dy Superintendent of Police, Longding.
The GB (victim) has been identified as Napho Boham of Lauksim village. As per the sources, the militant group was asking for house taxes from the villagers amounting to Rs. 4.5 lakh and another reason could be GB’s alleged involvement with security forces for sharing information about the militant groups’ as claimed by the sources, added DySP.
He also informed that, as of now no FIR has been registered, as no one from the victim’s family came forward to report the incident. Moreover, team of villagers and police also left for Nagaland to negotiate about the safe release of GB, he added.