Barely few days after a CRPF jawan was rescued from armed miscreants, four police personnel stationed at Kangpokpi Police Station were abducted along National Highway 2 at Koirengei in Imphal East by armed miscreants and brutally assaulted on Saturday afternoon.
Three of the police personnel are from the Nepali community while one is from the Muslim community.
They were identified as Ram Bahadur Karki (34), Ramesh Budhathoki (30), Manoj Khatiwoda (34), and Md Taj Khan (29). They were stationed at Kangpokpi Police Station.
The incident occurred when the four police personnel, who were on their way back to Kangpokpi Police Station from Imphal, were overtaken by the armed miscreants at Koirengei and frisked away after blindfolding them at around 12.40 pm.
Following the incident, the Committee on Tribal Unity (CoTU) has declared a 24-hour total shutdown in the entire Kangpokpi District to demonstrate their resentment over the abduction and brutal assault of the four Kangpokpi police personnel.
The total shutdown will begin from 12 midnight of May 11 till 12 midnight of May 12.
CoTU Media Cell Coordinator Ng Lun Kipgen said that police personnel from the Kangpokpi Police were manhandled and brutally assaulted at Koirengei, the home polling station of the incumbent Chief Minister while pointing that the Kangpokpi Police is still under the Home Department of the Manipur government, which is his department.
He also urged the Central Government to recognize that the state of Manipur is lawless and appealed to the Centre Government to take pre-emptive action by re-imposing the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in all 19 valley districts, which were previously exempted, before considering any political solution for the Kuki-Zo community as a separate administration.
The Kangpokpi Town Committee, and other local bodies of Kangpokpi also condemned the incident in the strongest and declared endorsement of CoTU’s total shutdown.
