Assam Police And Forest Officials Remove Signposts Found Inside Dissoi Valley RF

HT Correspondent
JORHAT, May 7: A joint team of Forest department and Police personnel on Saturday removed four signposts reportedly put up by a Naga students’ body inside the Dissoi Valley Reserve Forest along the Assam-Nagaland border under Mariani Range of Jorhat Forest Division.
A Forest department official said that signboards with Ao Students Conference (AKM), written in English, was found hanging on trees inside the Dissoi Valley Reserve Forest when a team comprising Forest and Police inspected the site on Saturday after receiving information in this regard from villagers residing in the border villages.
The official said that the signboards were removed and seized by the team. Patrolling has been intensified by Police and Forest department men in the areas in and around the spot where the signposts were found.
It may be mentioned here that the neighbouring Mokokchung district is inhabited mostly by Ao tribe of Nagaland.
In August last year in several such signposts were purportedly put up inside the same Reserve Forest following which Forest with support from Police force had removed it.
Tension had built up last year in the said Reserve Forest along the inter-state boundary with police forces of  two states setting up camps after an incident of firing on Mariani MLA Rupjyoti Kurmi and few others accompanying him took place when Kurmi had gone to verify reports of encroachment carried out by people from Nagaland side.
On July 31, 2021 under an agreement signed between chief secretaries of both Nagaland and Assam at Chumukedima in Dimapur, Nagaland to de-escalate tension along the Assam-Nagaland border in two locations of Dissoi Valley Reserve Forest were withdrawn.