Then NSCN-IM official called Adam Naga served the extortion notice to Dr Prodip Barooah, the hospital superintendent in the pad of ‘Government of People’s Republic f Nagalim’ (GPRN) asking him to collect and deposit 24 % of annual income of each of the hospital employee as ‘employees tax’ to the outfit. The extortion note mentioned a mobile number: 9402056996. The notice is datelined dateline Camp Hebron, the headquarter of the truce time NSCN-IM which has been in peace process with government of Indian since 1997.
The extortion notice has created panic among hospital doctors and other employees who have staged protest in hospital compound demanding adequate security against extortionists. A source in the hill district informed that some rebel outfit had abducted Dr Nityananda Naiding of the civil hospital from his official residence last month to be released later on payment of ransom money. In the March this year another doctor was abducted and later released on payment of Rs 10 lakh to the abductors.
The hospital staff demands adequate security in and around the compound of the hospital which doesn’t have even proper boundary wall though there is police picket within it.
Several groups including both the Naga rebel factions, NCSN –IM, NSCN-K, Dimasa National Democratic Front (DNDF) and some Kuki tribe militant groups have served extortion notices to all sections of people including teachers, doctors in different parts of the hill district exposing the helplessness of the administration there.
The district administration though has received complaints about many such extortion notices served to various employees of the hill district, is yet to take any precautionary measure to check the same.
Two most notorious rebel groups of the hill district – the Dima Halam Daogah (Dilip Nunisa faction ) and Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel Garlosa faction) or the Black Widow have given up arms and are engaged in peace process with the government of India. Still the militancy related troubles continue to dog the populace in the hill district despite heavy presence of security forces.
