GPRN/NSCN DISMISS REPORTS OF SENIOR LEADERS’ NAME FEATURING IN NIA’S MOST WANTED LIST

Guwahati, October 24, 2018:

The National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Unification), better known as the GPRN/NSCN, has dismissed the news published in a section of the media that their senior leaders Alezo Venuh and K Mulatonu are part of members of various armed groups tagged as India’s ‘most wanted.’

Expressing his surprise on the news featuring his name as ‘most wanted,’ Alezo Venuh, Envoy to the collective leadership, GPRN/NSCN, and Coordinator in the ongoing political dialogue between the Working Committee (WC) of NNPGs and the Government of India, said as soon as the ambush on Indian Army personnel in Manipur’s Chandel took place on June 4, 2015, he along with K Mulatonu was linked with the incident by NIA.

The Agency had wrongly implicated them for being involved in the ambush on Indian Army personnel in Chandel on June 4, 2015. Interestingly, the Agency has reportedly apologized for wrongly implicating them.

Venuh said they were never part of the incident in Chandel. He further disclosed that as soon as the incident took place in Chandel, the NIA officials from Guwahati had interrogated them (he and Mulatonu) and they found that there was no connection whatsoever between the incident and them. “After that, the NIA has given the official clarification on our position,” Venuh said. “So when I have never been part of the incident, NIA’s featuring my name in their website as ‘most wanted’ does not arise.”

It may be mentioned that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in its website has mentioned names of 258 fugitives that included 57 who carry a bounty on their heads. Names of various leaders belonging to NSCN (K), NSCN (IM) and other Northeast groups have also figured in the Agency’s list of ‘most wanted’ and its report has been published in section of the media.