IMPHAL, March 27: Amidst the beginning of the new administration of the Congress government in the state, police personnel protecting the law and order committed a ‘heinous crime’ by raping a housewife from Nungleiband village in Leimatak, who sells U-morok (chilli), on March 22 and that just shouting and keeping mum on the incident will not be the right step of the people, the militant outfit United Revolutionary front (URF) said in a release on Tuesday.
The hill people have the responsibility to make the Manipur police, who have proselytized and devoted to the Indian Army, a police force of the public, URF asserted that IRB Havildar, Chungkham Ibocha, IRB rifleman Kshetrimayum Kennedy, Laikhuram Rojit and Salam Bijen, who were involved in the heinous crime must be taken as the ‘enemy of the society.’
They (the four culprits) should be punished by ‘hanging until dead’ by parading in front of the general public and that their parents should also face the harsh treatments of the people, the outfit added.
Cautioning the people against their mandate in the last general elections in which the Congress obtained an overwhelming majority, URF sarcastically questioned the people of Manipur whether it was the fruit of their verdict and what will be the next hope.
The government should abstain from practicing such acts like staging fake encounters, torturing of innocent family members of militants in the state and assisting commitment of terror acts by UG imposters, and that it will be the right step of the government to maintain proper development, transparency, accountability and good governance, it added.
Stating that the URF is all prepared to engage in a political fight with the ruling state government, it challenged the government while suggesting the latter to jointly work out a political strategy.
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