Imphal, July 27: Manipur Police have arrested four cadres of the United National Liberation Front (P) in connection with a series of violent incidents, including a firing, assault of civilians, and the molestation of a woman. The arrests were made on July 26 in Chingmeirong, Imphal West District.
The arrested individuals have been identified as:
- Thounaojam Gopen Singh (34)
- Naorem Ningthouremba (25)
- Arambam Tom Meitei (35) and
- Laishram Doshnikumar (28)
They four were involved in a firing incident, assault of civilians and outraging the modesty of a woman.
The four have been remanded into police custody for eight days. The police action came after a formal complaint was filed at Lamphel Police Station by Leishithem Makung, a college student and employee at The Ocean Lounge, located at Khuman Lampak Dingku Road.
Taking to X, Manipur police, without mentioning the place where the incident took place on July 26, said the four were “involved in a firing incident, assault of civilians and outraging the modesty of a woman.”
Leishithem’s complaint detailed a harrowing experience that occurred around 9 PM on July 26. According to her statement in a Police complaint for registration of FIR filed at Lamphel Police Station on Saturday, attaching photos of the injured and video clips captured in CCTV, including photos of bullet shells recovered from the scene, Leishithem in the Police complaint said that a young employee and her friend were traumatized after being assaulted by a group of five men.
Leishithem’s statement read, “While I was doing my routine part time work as a waitress, a group of 5 men came in and after having some drinks and food, two out of five started assaulting me by pulling my hand, forcing me to smile, and by touching me inappropriately and forced fed me the portion of the eaten food. Those men also complained to the manager that I was not serving them properly.
I was very traumatized by their behaviour and after they left I sat at a corner and started crying to which my manager asked me as to why I am crying and after narrating him my ordeal I was told to go home by my manager. After packing my stuff and when I went down to go home, those men were still waiting at the staircase near the road, to which I was scared and want back to the lounge and called my friends to pick me up as I was scared to go alone.
That after my friends, namely Dino Rajkumar, Chanhor Hungyo, Chihanso, Somaya Shimprui, Lanhenba and D. Pouhrii came, those men were still there and enquired my friend as to why they came and my friends told them that I called them, to pick me and from there those 5 men started attacking and beating my friends using their hands and the handle of the guns near the staircase and fired two rounds near the staircase to which one of my friends merely escaped the gun shot and thereafter my friends were driven out on the street nearby and again they were beaten up mercilessly at gun point and again fired two rounds again. They even mercilessly thrashed Sochihan Hungyo (a passerby) without any reason who is admitted in Little clinic hospital, Nagaram, after sustaining grievous life threatening injuries to his head and body.”
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