Jawan kills 6 in North-East

In one of the worst case of fratricidal killings in the paramilitary forces, a jawan of the Assam Rifles shot dead six of his colleagues, including a junior commissioned officer, at a remote motor vehicle checkpost in Manipur’s Ukhrul district late on Wednesday night.

The incident took place at Awang Kasom, about 15 km west of Chingai sub divisional headquarters, where troops of the Assam Rifles are on duty at a road checkpost.

Rifleman T.S. Tangkhul, who was probably on duty, got into a heated altercation with his JCO and shot him dead with his service rifle.

Hearing the gunshots, five other jawans rushed in and Tangkhul found himself surrounded by five of his unit colleagues who tried to disarm him.

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Siliguri turns into warzone, Army on call

Siliguri became a war zone on Thursday as mobs of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha supporters and local residents fought pitched battles, as tension spread in the Darjeeling hill district.

The rioting forced West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee in Kolkata to seek Army deployment, but with the situation improving later in the day the Army was asked to remain on standby. “I had a talk with Army officials and asked them to stay alert,” he said.

Flag marches were, however, held by paramilitary jawans, and in response to the state’s request New Delhi ordered the dispatch of 10 more companies — almost 1,000 men — of the CRPF, BSF and SSB. Prohibitory orders under Section 144 CrPC were imposed in Siliguri subdivision.

Rattled by the worsening crisis in the Darjeeling hills, the CM has called an allparty meeting on June 17 to find a political solution. “I request all people, in the hills and the plains, to maintain peace and amity,” he said. After the GJM sus pended its “indefinite” bandh in the hills for 60 hours, ostensibly to allow tourists to leave the area safely, some outfits like the Jan Chetna Morcha, Amra Bangali and Bangla Bhasa Bachao Samiti called a 48 hour bandh in the plains.

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