KIMIN/LORA, Jul 31: All Papum Pare District Border Students Union (APPDBSU) has condemned Assam Forest and Police officials for intruding  into Arunachal territory and destroying tea garden at Lora village in Kimin, Papum Pare district on July 30 last.
General Secretary APPDBSU, Tarh Tagung informed that  Arunachal Police personnel along with union members today visited the said area to know the ground reality.
"On July 30th July, the tea garden belonging to one Ngurang Soli of Lora village under Kimin Administrative Circle was destroyed by the Assam Police who intruded into Arunachal boundary without any knowledge of the villagers or locals of the area," he said.
Lora village was established before the independence of India and is inside 40km from ‘Raj –Ali’ a boundary marked by the British authority before independence. For the last ten generations, villagers are cultivating on the same land, the union said while questioning the Assam officials claim over the land as their territory.
The APPDBSU further cautioned the Assam Chief Minister Himanta B Sarma not to repeat the Mizoram-Assam border situation in Arunachal Pradesh.
" The said land belongs to Arunachal, and LPC is being issued by Arunachal Government, and Assam should not interfere in  Arunachal territory," the general secretary said.
While citing  reports submitted to the Ministry  of Home  by  the  three-member  commission appointed by the Supreme Court to resolve the border dispute between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, wherein   it  was mentioned that  around 70-80 percent of the disputed land around the inter-state boundary should be given back to Arunachal Pradesh, APPDBSU  appealed the Chief Minister to immediately solve the boundary issue.

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