A day after the incident, a press release by Assam Government stated that Mizoram started constructing a road by destroying forest reserve and set up a police camp in Lailapur, Cachar District, Assam. The release further adds that a team of Assam officials has visited the place to request the Mizoram Authorities to maintain the status quo but were attacked by miscreants and visibly supported by Mizoram police, who’d later open fire at Assam police using automatic and light machine guns thereby killing 5 Assam police personnel on the spot. A press statement by Mizoram Government refuted Assam’s claim by stating, “Around 200 (two hundred) Assam armed Police led by IGP, Assam Police accompanied by DC, Cachar, SP, Cachar, and DFO, Cachar came to Vairengte Auto-rickshaw stand at around 11:30 a.m. today i.e., 26.07.2021. They forcibly crossed the duty post manned by CRPF personnel stationed there and overran a duty post manned by 1 (one) section of Mizoram police personnel. The Assam Police also damaged several vehicles that were travelling along the National Highway between Vairengte and Lailapur.” The Press Release by the Mizoram Home minister further stated that unarmed civilians were assaulted, lathi-charged and tear-gases shot upon by Assam Police which Mizoram police responded. “The Government of Mizoram strongly condemns the unjustified act of the Government of Assam in this intrusion and aggression into the territory of Mizoram,” the statement further adds.