Jowai, Oct 15: Total curfew has been imposed along the Meghalaya-Assam border in West Jaintia Hills on October 16 and 17.
The District Magistrate in the order under Section 163 BNSS said there is apprehension of serious deterioration of law and order in the disputed Lapangap village.
The order prohibits movement of people in the border areas within West Jaintia Hills District, unauthorised procession or unlawful assembly of five or more persons, and carrying or display any object made or adapted to be used as weapons or any instrument which could reasonable be used to injure, intimidate or create public disorder in and around the entire Assam-Meghalaya border areas.
On October 9, a 45-year-old man died after a scuffle between villagers over harvesting of paddy, with both sides claiming that the land was theirs. District Magistrate Abhinav Kumar Singh had then imposed a night curfew from 6 pm up to 10 am.
