A member of the army, even if serving in a region where AFSPA is enforced, has to follow the law. The law says that unprovoked, the security cannot shoot to kill or injure any person, civilian or militant – which is what happened in Oting in December 2021.
In the evening of December 4, 2021, security forces had, in a case of “mistaken identity”, fired at a pickup truck carrying eight miners in Oting in Mon district.