The Assam and Meghalaya governments have agreed to wind up the judicial commissions probing the Mukroh killings and hand the case over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), to maintain neutrality of events.
In November 2022, Assam Forest Protection Force personnel fired on alleged timber smugglers from Meghalaya at Mukroh, a village on the inter-State boundary that both Assam and Meghalaya claim as their own. Six people, including a forest guard, were killed in the firing.
The incident happened almost nine months after the two States signed an “historic” agreement to settle a 50-year-old dispute in six of the 12 areas of differences along their 885-km border.
