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Relations with Tributary States and Frontier Affairs |
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Nagas on the Sibsagar frontier |
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56. A few Nagas of Dopdor Duar visited the Deputy Commissioner and brought in the usual presents of goats, spears and fowls. As in the previous year, katakis were despatched by the Deputy Commissioner at the beginning of the cold weather to the chiefs of all the Naga villages, using the Tiru path, with parwanas to the effect that they must either deliver up the persons who committed the thefts and burnt down the godown at Cherideo in 1895, or pay fines of Rs.50 each, and that if they failed to do so, the path through Cherideo would be closed. A similar parwana was issued to the chiefs of Kongon and Jaktung, as the Nagas of these two villages come down to the plains through the Cherideo garden. The Nagas having made no attempt to comply with our demand, the Tiru path was closed to them and a police guard consisting of 1 havildar, 1 naik and 12 sepoys was posted at a site selected by the Officiating Deputy Commissioner in consultation with the Commandant of Military Police. |
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Two cases against Nagas were brought to trial during the year. In the Sadr subdivision, a Naga of Kang Sang was tried under section 457, Indian Penal Code, for house-breaking by night in order to commit theft in the house of a villager and sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment. In the Jorhat subdivision, a Naga was sentenced to 25 stripes for stealing a cow belonging to a raiyat of Amguri mauza. In the Golaghat subdivision, a Naga of Chingika laid an information against an Assamese for causing hurt under section 324 Indian Penal Code. On enquiry, it was found that the injury had been accidentally caused and the case was not proceeded with. |
