Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 22 2009:
Reacting the media report about the arrest of KRPA's PRO Serto Thangalen Kom s/o S Lengerkhup of Phunchongjang (Wangthalok) village by 28 AR from Kakwa Bazar, the KRPA has clarified that the individual was not related to the outfit in any manner.
A press release issued by the outfit's information and publicity secretary Jeevan Kom said that Thangalen Kom reactionary involved in different criminal cases besides being informer of the Assam Rifles.
Thangalen Kom was involved in felling and stealing around 5000 pine trees from Thinungei in 2007, the KRPA said citing some criminal activities committed by Thangalen.
Again in 2008, Thangalen illegally cut down 10-12 Tera trees at Khoirentak village.
For this, UKRA cadres punished him with a stern warning not to repeat such activities.
For his involved in the rape case of a woman at Tuibeyang village in the same year, the local villagers demolished his house and banished him.
After this, he pleaded to join KRPA as a cadre but he was denied joining the party.
He was also instrumental in landing a party cadre belonging to Sinam Kom village in the hands of AR posted at Sagolmang, it asserted.
As for the arrest of Thangalen Kom, he was only surrendering himself to AR together with 4-5 rounds of AK ammunition, it added.