Centre set to ban NSCN-K again

The SS Khaplang-led group, which abrogated the ceasefire with India in March this year, will be banned under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

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The group believed to have been behind the June 4 attack on an Army convoy in Chandel district of Manipur in which 18 soldiers were killed.

The Centre is all set to reimpose the ban on NSCN-K, the insurgent group believed to have been behind the June 4 attack on an Army convoy in Chandel district of Manipur in which 18 soldiers were killed.

The SS Khaplang-led group, which abrogated the ceasefire with India in March this year, will be banned under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). The NSCN-K was a banned outfit till 2001. However, after the group entered into a ceasefire agreement with the government, the ban was lifted.

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The Centre will move the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) for invoking the ban and after the Union Cabinet’s approval, the NSCN-K will be declared a banned outfit under the UAPA, sources said.

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has cited three incidents to ban the group. First, the June 4 attack on the Army convoy. Second, the May 4 attack on a convoy of Assam Rifles, which killed eight jawans and injured six others in Changlang Su area of Mon district in Nagaland. Third, the April 2 attack on an Army convoy in Tirap district of Arunachal Pradesh.

At present, the NSCN-K chief, a resident of Myanmar, is admitted at a Yangon hospital.

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