Imphal, Jan 2 NNN: Banned KCP (MC) Lanchen Chanu on Monday threatened the local daily Naharolgi Thongdang by gifting the letter a Chinese hand grenade which was wrapped in a nice small box.
The box was found at the entrance of the newspaper office around 5:30 this morning. A threatening note which read ‘Last warning to the editor, next will be blast’ was also found writing on a slip inside the box that wrapped a bomb.
The bomb was later recovered by a team of Lamphel police around 7:30 in the morning.
In the wake of the bomb threat, the all Manipur Working Journalist Union (AMJU) convened an emergency joint meeting of editors and AMWJU at the Manipur Press Club here at 3:30 pm Monday which was presided by the union president A. Mobi and took four resolutions.
The union condemned the incident where a self-styled KCP (MC) Lanchen group for gifting a bomb to Naharolgi Thoudang daily on Monday.
The meeting condemned the Manipur Government for failing to provide security to the reporters and media houses in the State despite their request in this regard.
The meeting also decided to blank out the editorial columns for January 3 editions for all the dailies in Imphal and it further resolved that in case the Government take up necessary action to provide proper security to the newspaper offices within January 3, the union will boycott the Government.
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