NIPIAL warns of agitation
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 20 2023:
Nongchup Imphal Palem Ima Apunba Lup (NIPIAL) has appealed to the State Government to arrest the armed miscreants involved in the indiscriminate firing incident of August 18 at the earliest.
Addressing a press conference today at Manipur Press Club, NIPIAL general secretary S Shantileima informed that on August 18 at around 10 pm, while the Meira Paibis of Singjamei-Canchipur area were keeping vigil on the highway as usual, some men in a car without registration number plate came from the direction of Canchipur and fired indiscriminately towards the Meira Paibis at Pechu Lampak.
She stated that after firing several rounds, the unidentified gunmen sped away to the North.
Condemning the firing incident in the strongest terms, Shantileima cautioned that that if the State Government fails to pull up all those people involved in the incident at the earliest, Meira Paibis in association with various CSOs will launched an intensified form of agitation till their demand is fulfilled.