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Guwahati: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday arrested three officials of Nagaland governemnt for allegedly providing government fund to outlawed NSCN (K).
According to the reports, the arrested government officials were involved as collector of NSCN (K).
The sleuths of NIA had arrested state Social Welfare department joint director Tulula Pongen, Land resources department joint director Alienba Pangjung Jamir and UDA K Lashito Sheqi.
A top official of NIA said that, they had allegedly charged large scale of extortion and collected illegal tax from the various government departments, organizations on behalf of the banned outfit group.
'They were also provided government money to NSCN (K). The three government officials were arrested on the basis of their alleged involvement in paying huge money to several outlawed groups including NSCN (K), NSCN (R), NNC,'Â the top NIA official said.
The sleuths of NIA had seized huge quantity of demand letters, payment receipts from government department offices.
On the other hand, the arrested government officials were appeared before the special NIA court in Dimapur and the court sent Jamir and Sheqi to five-day police remand while Pongen sent to hospital for treatment as she was reported sick.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
