North Lakhimpur, March 10 -- Officials from the Assam forest department were in tenterhooks as encroachers built structures on the disputed land on the Kakoi-Rajgarh area of Lakhimpur district on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh inter-state boundary on Sunday.

Report says, after receiving reports of an alleged encroachment on disputed land, a team of forest officials led by a Range Forest Officer visited Kakoi-Rajgarh area of Kakoi Reserve Forest of Lakhimpur.

The official found people from neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh were already erecting a traditional house made of bamboo and palm leaves.

As the authority opposed and asked to stop the construction, the alleged encroachers from Arunachal Pradesh claimed that the land belongs to them. Th...