Since September 1996, five CITU leaders and activists, four of whom are working women, have been brutally killed in the same Mornoi Tea Estate. In September 1996, Com. Sararika Soren was killed by the management-hired goondas and the assailants hanged her dead body in a tree, in order to terrorise the common workers. In March 1999, Com. Anabrita Boral was murdered in the same place and within three months again three more CITU leaders had to succumb to the cruel bullets of the management goons.

During last few years, a kind of annihilation campaign was going on against the CITU workers and activists in the Mornoi Tea Estate which was earlier dominated by local mafias under the garb of INTUC union. To cow down the rising struggle of tea garden workers under the leadership of CITU, the management-INTUC nexus have been carrying on murderous attack on CITU workers, predominantly working women. But till date not a single culprit was arrested by the police despite repeated demands, which clearly exposed the hobnobbing of local law and order authority with the Tea-Garden management and criminal negligence of the State Govt.

CITU Secretariat has condemned such brutal killings of tea garden workers and also the criminal indifference by the State Administration to arrest the culprits. In a telegram to Chief Minister of Assam, the CITU General Secretary, M K Pandhe, demanded immediate action against the murderer-management nexus. In a separate letter to Chief Minister of Assam E Balanandan, MP President, and CITU expressed strong indignation over the callous negligence of the State Govt in the matter.