One killed in shoot out; Fake encounter alleged
Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network
Imphal, January 13, 2012:
Security forces shot dead a suspected UG cadre this morning at Lamshang in Imphal West district, hours after a combined force killed two suspected UGs yesterday near Inter- Village road in the district.
Sources said a combined team of Imphal West police commandos and 30th Assam Rifles killed a suspected UG cadre during an encounter that took place round 4 this morning in an area between Lamban and Heibungpokpi village in Imphal West.
The suspected militant has been identified as one Thongam Bungbung alias Abung, 31 s/o Th.Jatra, a resident of Kwakeithel Thounaojam Leikai of Imphal west.
Bungbung is reported to have been picked up by the combined security team around 2 this early morning from his house before he was claimed to have been gunned down by the security team in a shootout.
He was a personnel of 4 IRB but was suspended for being a conduit for a UG group sometime back.
He had run a carwash house after his suspension from the service, according to his family sources.
Meanwhile, the identities of the two suspected UGs who were killed by a combined team of Imphal West commandos and troops of 18th Sikh regiment yesterday during a firefight near Inter-Village Road have also been established as Ningthoukhongsam Puni, 27 s/o N Muhindro, a resident of Keibi Makha Leikai and the other as Thingujam Bheigo, 37 s/o (L) Khomei of Nongada Thongkhong.
The bodies had been lying at the RIMS morgue since yesterday.