Situation Tense On Assam-Meghalaya Border, Mobile Internet Service Suspended For Next 48 Hours

After the violent clashes on the Assam-Meghalaya border , the situation still remains tense. According to a senior official, a large number of security personnel have been deployed in the area after the death of six people. Section at the place where violence broke out has been installed. , next in 7 district of Meghalaya 48 INTERNET SERVICE INTERRUPTED FOR HOURS

Meghalaya Government has suspended mobile internet services in at least seven Khasi-Jaintia Hills districts in the eastern part of the state till Saturday. To prevent misuse of social media to disturb peace and to maintain law and order, mobile internet and data services have been suspended, said CVD Dengdoh, Secretary, Home Department. is closed for hours. Mobile internet services were suspended in seven districts within hours of the outbreak of violence on Tuesday.

Prohibition on entry of vehicles from Assam into Meghalaya

Police personnel at various entry points from Assam to Meghalaya Barricades have been put up and people are being urged not to go to Meghalaya in vehicles with Assam number plates. If it is absolutely necessary (to travel), they should hire Meghalaya taxis from the border entry points. However, he added that there is no such restriction on commercial vehicles like trucks and tankers.

What is the matter

at a disputed site in West Karbi Anglong district along the Assam-Meghalaya border on Tuesday Six people, including a forest guard, were killed in the pre-dawn violence. The clash took place when a truck carrying illegally cut timber was stopped by Assam forest officials. The Assam government has stopped vehicles from plying to Meghalaya following a series of attacks on passenger cars following the incident.

long-standing border dispute between Assam-Meghalaya

between Assam and Meghalaya . Adjacent to 9 kilometer long inter-state border are areas in dispute for a long time and the place where the violence took place is one of them. The two states had signed an MoU in March this year to end the dispute in six areas. Meghalaya was separated from Assam in 1971 and since then it has passed the Assam Reorganization Act, 1971, according to which the boundary between the two states has been demarcated. went.

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Thu, Nov 24, 2022, 10: 17 PM IST