Nagaland Police have chargesheeted at least 30 members of the 21 Para Special Force, including a Major, in the December 4, 2021, botched Army operations in Oting-Tiru area of Mon district when at least 13 civilians died.
Thirty Army special forces soldiers have been named in a Nagaland Police chargesheet over a botched ambush last year that killed 14 civilians. The state police chief said their Special Investigation Team, or SIT, has given the chargesheet to court.
The Nagaland police on Saturday charged 30 soldiers in connection with last year's botched army operations in the Oting-Tiru area of Mon district, which killed 13 civilians.
Eastern Mirror Desk Dimapur, June 11 (EMN): The Special Investigation Team (SIT) has completed its probe into the Oting incident that killed 14 innocent villagers — 13 in a botched ambush by the 21 Para Special Forces and its aftermath in Mon district on December 4, 2021, and one during a protest in connection with the incident on the following day. The Director General of Police (DGP), T John Longkumer on Saturday said that 30 members of the operation team of 21 Para Security Forces, including one Major, two subedars, eight Hav/THM, four Nk, six L/Nk and nine paratroopers, have been named in the charge sheet filed in connection with the case. He added that charge sheet had been submitted to the District and Sessions Court, Mon, on May 30, 2022, through APP, Mon. Timeline Dec. 4, 2021: At around 4:30 pm, a unit of the ‘21 Para Special Forces’, ambushed a Bolero pickup truck carrying eight miners from Oting village, suspecting them as militants, in what was dubbed as a c