Day: January 12, 2013

Mail News Service
Imphal, Jan 12: Some AR personnel searched for youths of Heirok Part-II Maning Leikai who were supposed to take part in surrender drama yesterday.
Naga Regiment personnel they entered the house of one Moirangthem Oken (25) who was among the seven persons and asked if he knew the house of Sagolsem ongbi Purnima Devi (38) who arranged the surrender drama. Six youths who were in 42nd AR camp, Chandel left their residence on hearing the news of the arrival of Naga Regiment.
Meeting the media at Manipur Press Club a representative of peoples organization for civil integrity and liberty a constituent body of 21 clubs said, yesterday around 1.50 p.m. VK Daman, deputy CO of Naga Regiment accompanied by personnel coming in two Gypsies, one 407 mini tata came there and met M. Oken, one of seven youths. Heirok populace had stopped entry of militants since 2008. It was unfortunate that the IGAR South had described the fleeing of the seven youths from the 42 AR post as instigation by underground elements, he said.

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IMPHAL, Jan 12 NNN: The High Court Bar Association, Manipur (HCBAM) has suspended its months- long strike on Saturday following an appeal from the CM.
The decision to suspend the strike was taken during an emergency meeting of the executive committee of HCBAM in view of the favourable development and timely intervention of Chief Minister O Ibobi as well as the Union Law minister, advocate and executive member, HCBAM, Khaidem Mani informed the media.
He said the meeting held yesterday at the office of the Bar under the chairmanship of N Kumarjit, president, HCBAM resolved to suspend the ongoing strike by the association with immediate effect.
A three-member team led by HCBAM president Kumarjit will leave Imphal for New Delhi tomorrow for a joint meeting with the Union Law minister on January 14 as informed by the Chief Minister to the association, Mani said.
Two major demands of HCBAM are that no Judge from the common Gauhati High Court be absorbed in the High Court of Manipur except two elevated from the state and let the High Court of Manipur be installed to be a High Court consisting of seven Judges for rendering effective administration of justice.
Meanwhile the Zeliangrong Youth Front (ZYF) has ridiculed the strike launched by the High Court Bar Association, Manipur (HCBAM) and said the latter’s agitation too amounts to the violation of the citizens’ rights.
Driving home its point, the ZYF pointed out that the High Court had passed ‘wanted tag’ to the then presidents of the United Naga Council (UNC) and the All Naga Students’ Association, Manipur (ANSAM) for calling a general strike.
The ZYF then said since November 8, 2012 till date, the HCBAM’s strike has been called for more than two months now, which can never be justified under any circumstance.
“Is the HCBAM in a position to extend the superannuation year or retirement age for government employees whose case pertaining to promotion or any service matters or any other important matters are pending disposal at the high court? Who will compensate to those persons for their extra punishment or loss of precious time which is without their slight faults?,” the Zeliangrong Youth Front (ZYF) asked.
Reiterating its point, the ZYF recalled that the same high court had in one instance passed ‘wanted tag’ with a fixing cash reward of Rs. 1 lakh on the heads of the president of the United Naga Council (UNC) and the president of All Naga Students Association Manipur (ANSAM) for launching agitation on the ground that the agitation had violated the rights of other people. “Now, the agitation of the HCBAM abstaining from duties has kept the high court on not functioning and fails to serve the very purpose of establishing a court whose objective is to deliver justice to the citizens, as such the agitation has violated the rights of the people. Judiciary which is one of the most vital organs of the democratic State has been disrupted by the HCBAM’s agitation,” the ZYF said.
According to the Zeliangrong organisation, keeping the court not functioning for such a long period is not at all in the interest of justice and not in the interest of the people of the State. “Therefore, the HCBAM is appealed to explore other options which may not affect the rights of the citizens while pursuing their demand and resume attending the court by not contradicting the judgement passed earlier if their demand is to be pursued,” the ZYF appeals.

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IMPHAL, Jan 12 NNN: The Autonomous District Council (ADC) Coordination Committee, Manipur has on Saturday strongly reacted to the recent statement of the Chief Minister that full power had been devolved to the ADCs.
Reacting to the recent statement of Chief Minister O Ibobi made during a function at Tousem on January 9, Hemjathang Khongsai, secretary, ADCCC, told the media today at the ADC Council Bhavan, Chingmeirong here that the remarks of the chief minister was uncalled for and that no power has ever been devolved to the 156 ADCs.
Condemning the statement, he said the Government of Manipur has not yet conceded the demands of the ADCCC till date. The committee had also submitted to the Government to response to the demands on November 10 last year.
Another ultimatum was also submitted to the chief minister in connection with the demands with a dateline that ended yesterday, .
A meeting of the committee was held at the Council Bhavan on Saturday attended by 130 ADC members to discuss further course of action of the committee as the state Government has not given a positive response to the ultimatum , he informed.
The meeting decided to organize mass protest dharna, to meet MLAs of the hill areas and the Governor and put pressure to the Centre with regard to the demands, he added.
All the ADC members will resign en masse if the demands fail to meet even after the above steps to be taken up as the last resort, he warned.
The demands of ADCCC include ensuring the autonomy of the six ADCs, separate budget and separate demand heads of each ADCs, adequate devolution of powers in respect of Central sponsored schemes in hill areas to the six ADCs and adequate devolution of powers for 26 subjects provided under Section 29 (1) of the Manipur (Hill Areas) District Councils (Third Amendment) Act, 2008, Khongsai added.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/adc-reacts-to-cms-statement/