IMPHAL, Nov 28 UNA : A special vigil has been made on carrying huge amount of money from Imphal to Moreh by passengers and travel agencies following arrest of two persons who were allegedly engaged in the sending of extorted money from Imphal to Moreh,.
An official source Wednesday said that two activists of different underground outfits who were engaged in sending and delivering huge amount of money in cash to leaders of the underground outfits were arrested by state police commandos recently from Imphal area.
One of the two was a rifleman of the Manipur Rifles and arrested by police commandos on the alleged charge of being an activist of PREPAK while he was about to sent an amount of Rs five lakh to a commander of the outfit under whom he was working and staying in Myanmar.
The source said that Nameirakpam Hemen Meitei (45) of Bashikhong Mamang Leikai was arrested by a team of police commandos attached with Imphal West district from Thangal Bazar on November 24 last and handed over to the City police with Rs five lakh seized from his possession.
Hemen is a personnel of E-coy of 8th Manipur Rifles under rifleman number 1194268 and currently posting at Leikhun of Chandel district. During spot verification, Hemen reportedly admitted that he works under one Babu of PREPAK outfit currently staying in Myanmar and he was sending the amount to someone at Moreh for onward handing over to Babu.
He further disclosed that the amount he was possession was extorted from different government department like sericulture, CAW, MANIDCO, businessmen and government employees as party fund. After producing him in the court of Imphal West district magistrate, he has been remanded to judicial custody.
Another person allegedly engaged in delivering money to RPF/PLA leaders in Moreh town has also been picked by the police commandos from his own house at Imphal’s Thonju part-II on November 25 last by a team of Imphal West commandos.
He was identified as Thongam Debendra Singh alias Tayaima (53) of Thongju part-II from his residence on November 25. He was alleged of being engaged in collecting and sending money extorted by PLA activists from various government departments, individuals and government employees.
He used to send the money to one Self Styled Major Bikon working in the finance section of the outfit. He had recently sent Rs 2,85,000 and Rs 2,50,000 to Bikon after one PLA cadre identified as Naton handed over to him. Before this he had visited Moreh and handed over Rs 9 lakh to Bikon, police alleged.
However, RPF denied that Debendra is an activist of the outfit in a statement dispatched to media houses in Imphal yesterday which stated, Debendra had no link with the outfit in any way.
Police has intensified its vigil on the sending of money in cash.
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