Sovima, August 11 (MExN): The Sovima Village Council (SVC) on August 11 has informed that it expelled six tenants from the village for an indefinite period of time for indulging in “illegal activities such as sale and consumption of drugs/Sunflower and bootlegging.”
“They have been directed to vacate the village within 15 days failing which their household items shall be seized by the Council and they shall be forced out of the village,” informed a press release from the SVC Council Secretary, Ruokuosilie Rupreo.
The expelled persons have been identified as Threiwang Awang, Wongkhen Jolyn, Yonem Konyak, Kishini Chishi, Kechakielie Angami and Keduolhoulie Angami. Further, Vibeizolie Angami and Enzilo Lotha have been directed to surrender their land registration papers to the Council Secretary by 6 pm of August 11, it said.
The SVC further informed that it resolved in 1998 to “strictly ban sale of IMFL, and sale of psychotropic drugs in 2006.”
These resolutions were reaffirmed by the present SVC team on July 22, 2022, with a rider that properties in which drugs were found to be sold would be seized by the Council, it said. There have also been precedents where bootleggers and drugs peddlers were penalised heavily and expelled from the village, it added.
