Last Updated:December 28, 2025, 09:03 IST The Indian Air Force facility will be set up near Lalgarh Jatan in Rajasthan’s Sri Ganganagar district, a strategic location about 40 km from the India-Pakistan border. The judicial bench rejected petitions from 58 farmers and landowners who contested the land acquisition for the airbase. (Representative image) Former JNU student leader and an accused in the Delhi riots case, Sharjeel Imam, had in 2019 urged mobs to sever the Siliguri Corridor or the Chicken’s Neck to cut off the Northeast from the rest of India. Six years later, AIMIM MLA Tauseef Alam is fighting tooth and nail against the Indian Army’s proposal to establish a military camp near the strategic Siliguri Corridor in Kishanganj, Bihar. Alam says the chosen location is densely populated, has thousands of marginal farmers, and has numerous mosques, making it a site unfit for a military base. Alam and others have appealed to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to find another piece of land for the project. The Chicken’s Neck is a critical strip (about …