Naga Club building case: Accused officials appears before SIT; NSF to hoist black flags on June 2

KOHIMA, JUNE 1: All six officials of Naga Club have appeared before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in connection with the May 27 destruction of Naga Club building.
Police sources said that the six officials of Naga Club, who were granted conditional anticipatory bail by the Gauhati High Court Kohima Bench, appeared before the SIT yesterday.
However, with their anticipatory bail, the SIT questioned them and were allowed to go with submission of a security bond, police said adding that they would be called for further questioning on need basis.
The Naga Club building, housing the offices of Naga Students’ Federation (NSF), Kohima Press Club, All Nagaland College Students’ Union and some business establishments, was demolished on Saturday morning by so-called unknown miscreants but the Naga Club officials claiming to actual descendants of the Naga Club of 1918 had claimed responsibility saying that they did it to build a new complex.
Meanwhile, consequent upon the heinous act of vandalizing the NSF Oking and the subsequent failure of the authorities concerned to book the perpetrators of the heinous crime despite the lapse of 5 days, the NSF directed all its federating units & subordinate bodies to hoist black flags at their respective Oking.
“This is to democratically express our resentment against the inaction of the authorities concerned despite the perpetrators publicly claiming responsibility for the crime. Banners explaining the reason as to why the flag is hoisted should also be put up”, said the NSF.
“This exercise shall continue until befitting actions are initiated by the authorities against the culprits involved in the criminal act”, NSF said.
It also asked the federating units and subordinate bodies to submit compliance reports along with pictorial and video recordings to the office of NSF before 5 p.m. of June 2.
Further, NSF office has started functioning in a makeshift area opposite the destructed complex.
(Page News Service)