Aizawl: Some activists of the Mizo Students' Union on Friday damaged a makeshift duty post and a checkpost constructed by Assam police near Bairabi on the Mizoram-Assam border, an MSU leader said on Sunday.

According to him, they had gone to a spot where the Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP), the apex students' organisation in Mizoram, has set up a zofate chawlhbuk or a rest shed.

On seeing the constructions by Assam police inside Mizoram's territory, MSU activists, led by their president of sub-headquarters, Bairabi, Laldinsanga, demolished the duty post and the checkpost.

"The MSU has strongly opposed Assam police's move," a source said.

On February 27, the MZP constructed the rest shed which was demolished by Assam police and the Assam forest department overnight.

The MZP claims that the land belongs to former Mizoram chief minister Ch. Chhunga's wife Lalrothangi who had donated it to them for construction of a rest shed.

They claimed that the land falls under the a reserve forest which is now under the control of the Assam government.

MZP president L. Ramdinliana Renthlei said they were determined to construct a rest shed at the site despite opposition from the Assam government. He claimed the land belongs to Mizoram and they have every right to construct a rest shed there.

The MZP slammed the Mizoram government for its "silence" on the issue and urged it to resolve the border dispute at the earliest.