Day: February 24, 2013

Mail News Service
Imphal, Feb 24 : The Sr Publicity officer of UNLF, Ksh Yoihenba today said the government which is trying desperately every possible way to undermine UNLF Chairman Sanayaima and 14 other cadres including two Central Committee members to negotiating terms like the other insurgent groups of the region which GOI could ensnare in their peace talk trap; is at a loss at the rock solid firmness with which UNLF Chairman and the cadres’ stand for sovereignty and independence of Manipur.
This time the Indian government allegedly misled the general public. The story reported on dated 20 Feb ’13, on some Guwahati based TV channels DY- 365, NETV, etc, and an Assamese daily “Asomia Protidin” that UNLF Chairman Sana Yaima @ Meghen has begun “peace talks” with representatives of India Government through Video Conference from Dispur is totally baseless, mischievous and misleading. Chairman Meghen and fourteen other cadres were taken to the Video Conference Studio located at the Secretariat complex at Dispur as the NIA produced two protected witnesses in a court in Delhi citing security reasons it was clarified. The statements of the witnesses were taken through video conference. All these NIA courts were stage managed by the government. It added that UNLF declared time and again that, its Chairman, and cadres are all freedom fighters; and can not be tried under any Indian law court, as UNLF is fighting to regain the right to national selfdetermination of the Manipuri peoples which India treacherously usurped.
Those TV Channels & newspapers which wrongly informed the public, besides creating confusion should make an apology in the larger interest of the media fraternity it was added.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/unlf-refutes-peace-talk-story/

IMPHAL, Feb 24 MNS NNN: Manipur police had detained an army colonel for transporting a huge amount of banned drugs worth Rs15 crore to the Myanmar side on Sunday.
Colonel Ajay Choudhury along with five others were transporting the banned drugs in three vehicles from Imphal towards the Myanmar side this morning when the Manipur police caught them and seized the drugs.
Altogether there were two Bolero jeeps and one Tata Safari. The Bolero jeep the army colonel was using has a flag-post which was leading the two other vehicles.
Reports said Col Ajay Choudhury, PRO of Defence Wing stationed at M-Sector in Imphal along with five others were heading towards the border town of Moreh in the Indo-Myanmar border when the Thoubal district police attached with Pallel police station in Chandel district signalled them to stop.
Colonel Ajay Choudhuri slowed down his vehicle and explained to the police about his identity and asked the driver to speed away.
The two tailing vehicles too sped away without paying any heed to police signal. Sensing some suspicion, the police in no time mounted their Gypsy vehicle and chased the three vehicles. After a good chased for about ten minutes, the police team managed to stopped them. The police checked the three vehicles and found the drugs in all the three vehicles.
In the first Bolero jeep where the army colonel was sitting, the police team found drugs packed in 2 huge bags, 5 carton boxes and one huge plastic bag. Six huge plastic bags and three carton boxes were found packed with the drugs in the second vehicle and in the third vehicle, i.e in the Tata Safari, 8 plastic bags, for travelling bags and one carton box were found loaded packed with the drugs.
The names of the seized drugs are cipla restifed, omkof, hilcold-t, polyfed-c and actidin.
Reports said all the six persons were detained first at the Pallel police station but handed them to Kakching police station, Thoubal district in the evening.
Reports said initially the army colonel was denying of carrying the drugs, according to a source. Ajay Choudhury had reportedly told the police that he was not aware of the goods. He thought they were the personnel goods of his travelling collegues. But it was not clear whether the army colonel had admitted of the wrong doing or not.
Meanwhile, the other five have been identified as one Ngairakpam Brojendro (40), s/o late Dyamendro of Singjamei Khong Kheidekpi, Imphal. He is reportedly an assistant manager of the Indigo airline based in Imphal. He was driving the first vehicle where the colonel was sitting.
The third person has been identified as one Haopu Haokip (28), s/o Hegin Haokip from Langol’s Game Village, Zone II, Imphal. The fourth one has been identified as Minthang Dongel (29) s/o Lupho Aobangel of New Checkon, Imphal. The next person has been identified as one Assan Rifle jawan R.K Babloo (25), s/o R.K Bijen of Porompat, Imphal and the last one is one Milan Haokip. s/o late Poukhokin Haokip of New Checkon, Imphal.
UNA reports that Col Ajay has confessed about his involvement with the smuggling of drugs along the Moreh route for over five times earlier.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/army-pro-held-with-drugs/