The Nagaland Police has informed that the department of Military Affairs under the Ministry of Defence has refused to grant permission to prosecute 30 army personnel, who were allegedly involved in a botched counter-insurgency operation in Nagaland in December 2021, in which 13 young men were killed.
An FIR filed by the Nagaland Police had said that the Army’s 21 Para Special Force “blankly opened fire” with the “intention to murder and injure civilians”.
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NAGALAND The State Crime Cell Police Station and the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Nagaland Police have communicated the ‘denial of prosecution sanction’ on the 30 accused in the Oting killing case by the government of India, to the District and Session Court in Mon, where the charge sheet in connection with the case was filed in May last year.The office of the Director General of Police (DGP) updated on Wednesday that this was done as required by law.It informed that the SIT had sought sanction for prosecution from the department of Military Affairs, Ministry of Defence, Government of India, against the accused security personnel involved in the incident after it completed the investigation in March last year but the latter had conveyed its denial to take such an action amid Supreme Court’s stay order on the case.“As per procedure upon completion of investigation, pending the receipt of sanction for prosecution, the charge sheet in the case was filed in the Hon’b