In a significant development, Assam and Nagaland on Saturday began withdrawing their respective police forces to their base camps from two areas at the interstate border to restore peace. The decision came at a meeting between the chief secretaries of the two states -- J Alam of Nagaland and Jishnu Barua of Assam – at Chumukdema on the outskirts of Dimapur in Nagaland.
The meeting decided that the simultaneous withdrawal of the security personnel would be completed in the next 24 hours.
It comes in the backdrop of the mounting tension in the Dessoi Valley Reserved Forest/Tsurangkong valley due to the stand-off between the armed police forces of the two states.