Doctors and other employees of the civil hospital in Haflong, headquarters of Dima Hasao district in Assam, are in fear after receiving a “notice” from one of the NSCN factions in Nagaland to pay 24 per cent of their salary as “tax” to the outfit.
The notice, addressed to the superintendent of the hospital on November 19, had asked him to arrange the “tax” from doctors and staff working under him. The hospital has 17 doctors and over 150 other employees. “We have filed an FIR. A police picket has been posted in the hospital campus,” Dr Pradip Kumar Barooah, superintendent of the hospital, said.
“I also received a phone call from a person who claimed to be from the NSCN, who said the notice was served to us by mistake. Doctors, the caller claimed, have been exempted,” Dr Barooah said. On November 9, a doctor, Dr N Naiding, was kidnapped from the hospital complex on November 9. But he was released unharmed the same night.
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