IMPHAL, April 7 NNN : Manipur statewide indefinite bandh imposed by the joint action committee (JAC) against the murder of Ningombam Satyabama totally disrupted the Indo-Myanmar road at Singjamei-Kakwa area along the National Highway-2 for the second day today. The JAC said it will continue its agitation as long as the state government of Manipur fulfils its demand.
In a memorandum submitted to the government, the JAC demands that those persons involved in the murder of Ningombam Satyabama be booked and given life imprisonment. The JAC said if the government does not fulfil within 5 days time, the JAC will intensify its agitation.
Today at around 1 pm, bandh supporters and the police had a tussle when the agitators were shutting the Imphal’s Khwairamband bazar. About 20 members of the JAC were taken to the police custody.
The bandh was strong in the Singjamei-Kakwa areas and the NH-2 was totally paralysed.
Satyabama, a Junior Research Fellow of DBT Project in Pathology at Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Imphal, was found dead in a trench drain in Bashikhong Wangkhei Laoumanbi filed yesterday afternoon.
The 31-year-old doctor was the daughter of N Tomba, a resident of Kakwa Laishram Leikai Salungba Leirak.
According to the preliminary post mortem report on the death of Satyabama that was conducted at Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS), she was strangled and killed.
Since early morning today, a large number of bandh supporters, mostly from her locality, including the JAC blocked the National Highway-2 (Imphal-Moreh road) at Kakwa bazaar.They put timbers and burnt tyres on the road to stop traffic.
The strike was affective in many parts of the capital Imphal and other districts too. Vehicles were off the road and Government establishments were shut due to the general strike in Imphal.
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