The Mizoram Police has booked Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on charges of attempt to murder and criminal conspiracy over the recent clashes at the interstate border on July 26.

Alongwith the chief minister, four senior Assam police officials, two bureacrats and 200 unidentified Assam Police personnel have been named in the FIR

In the FIR filed by a Mizoram Police inspector dated on July 26, stated the accused have been booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Arms Act and Mizoram Containment and Prevention of Covid-19 Act 2020.

In the complaint, Mizoram police has accused a team of “200 fully armed” Assam Police personnel led by its IGP of intimidating its own team of 20 officers and attempting to “forcefully occupy” their police camp calling it an encroachment of reserve forest.

“The Mizoram Police were outnumbered and their actions to defend their camp were in vain. Upon learning of this incident, SP Kolasib and party immediately rushed to the area and tried their level best to have an amicable dialogue with Assam Police, but they were not ready to listen to sane argument and instead forcefully informed SP Kolasib that the area falls within Assam territory and they intended to construct a camp as per the instruction of Chief Minister, Assam himself,” the FIR states.

It further states that the Assam Police team had arrived at the spot with tents and other materials accompanied by 20 vehicles with the sole aim of constructing a camp by forcibly occupying the Mizoram BOP.