Imphal Based Newspapers Caught in Wrong-Foot: False Reporting

Sinlung Says: It made front page on several Imphal Dailies…’Nagaland Bound Trucks Burned’…result is..All Lies..

A Sorry Would be enough…but I guess, caught in the ethnic deluge no body would give in even if they are wrong.

And here’s proof:

No Nagaland trucks attacked in Assam

Dimapur/Diphu, June 10 : No trucks were burnt down in Assam as reported in some Imphal based newspapers today.

The Superintendent of Police, Dimapur and some organizations’ leaders in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district and a well known newspaper editor of the area informed Newmai News Network tonight that no Nagaland bound trucks were set on fire as reported in Imphal newspapers in today’s editions.

These sources also refuted the earlier reports of Imphal based newspapers saying that a Nagaland bound truck carrying two wheelers were set on fire by unidentified persons in Assam.

It is worth noting that some organizations had threatened to impose a counter blockade on Nagaland bound trucks in Assam sector as a retaliation to banning of Manipur registered vehicles in Nagaland, and the imposition blockade along the National Highways leading to Manipur by Naga students’ bodies.

“I have been constantly keeping in touch with my counter-parts in Assam but no such information of attacks or setting on fire of Nagaland bound vehicles were received,” clarified Liremo Lotha, SP of Dimapur, while adding, “If any such attack happens on the Nagaland bound vehicles in Assam then my counter-parts in any of the Assam districts will definitely inform me which is the official procedure.”

The Dimapur SP also informed that trucks ferrying goods for Nagaland are carrying out their services as usual.

Sushanta Roy, the editor of Steadfast daily, an English newspaper based in Diphu, Karbi Anglong district of Assam, informed NNN that no such attacks on the Nagaland bound vehicles happened in Assam. Sushanta Roy said that he had enquired in the Manja Town police station and other fronts but no untoward incidents happened.

Sushanta Roy also said that if such attacks had happened in Karbi Anglong district, the media offices in the district will be the first to get the information.

Meanwhile, some newspapers in Imphal reported on Wednesday that a Nagaland bound truck was set on fire by unidentified persons in the wee hours of the day and damaged many others by stoning.