Golaghat: Fresh tension erupted in Chungajan, situated along the Assam-Nagaland inter-state boundary under Dhansiri subdivision of Golaghat district, when some goons allegedly from the Nagaland side set a hut ablaze on Wednesday evening.

Sources said around 7.30pm the hut belonging to Jibon Bora, a farmer of Rangpur village in the Chungajan area, was set on fire by the gang coming from Nagaland side of the boundary.

They also damaged Bora's tomato cultivation.

The village, in sector B of the disputed area belt (DAB) along the inter-state boundary, is nearly 65km from district headquarters Golaghat and 365km from Guwahati.

The Chungajan unit of AASU on Thursday blocked roads at Chungajan and Gelabil near Nagaland from 5am, demanding immediate arrest of the culprits.

The blockade ended at 1pm when senior officials, including superintendent of police, sub-divisional officer of Dhansiri and border magistrate reached the spot and assured the protesters that the culprits would be brought to book.

The president of Chungajan unit of AASU, Montu Bhajoni, said a number of cases, including the one on Wednesday, had been registered at Chungajan police station against hoodlums allegedly coming from the Nagaland side, but the police had failed to make a single arrest.

"We have been given an assurance by the superintendent of police that those involved in yesterday's incident will be arrested within 24 hours. If nobody is arrested, we will launch a series of agitations," Bhajoni said.

"We demand that the state government take steps on a war footing to ensure security of life and property of people living on the border and ensure that such situations do not happen again," he said.

"Yesterday's incident has nothing to do with boundary dispute. The villager whose hut was torched has land disputes with some residents of a neighbouring Naga village," Golaghat superintendent of police Manabendra Dev Ray said. #"However we have already registered a case and investigation is going on."