IMPHAL, April 24 NNN : The Naga National Council (NNC) was involved in the kidnapping of driver Sh Surjit in Kohima on April 21. The outfit had kidnapped the driver in connection with non-payment of annual tax to the outfit, it has been revealed.
Surjit, 42, son of late Brajadol of Shiva village, Cachar in Assam, presently staying at Sangakpham bazaar in Imphal West, was freed by NNC somewhere in Kohima around 3 pm yesterday.
Briefing the media at Inter-state Bus Terminus, Khuman Lampak here Wednesday, Surjit said he was kidnapped by four armed persons who were in a taxi (Maruti 800 car) in Kohima, the capital of Nagaland around 4:30 am of April 21.
He said the unidentified persons then carried him in the taxi and afterwards they reached at a camp manned by uniformed men who claimed that they were cadres of NNC.
They told him that he was being kidnapped in connection with non-payment of annual tax of Rs 10, 000 to the outfit.
“This is the first warning… and all the oil tankers must pay the annual tax to the outfit within the current month,” Surjit quoted one of the cadres as saying.
All Manipur Petroleum Tankers and Drivers Union president Y Bhupenchandra Gosh who was also present at the media briefing expressed gratitude to all the NGOs for extending support to the strike imposed by the union over the abduction of driver Surjit.
He also said the union was really sad as the people had faced the problem of fuel during the stir and appealed to both the Central and state Governments and also to IOC authority to provide adequate security along the highways.
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