Former PULF leader under bomb threat
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, April 03 2011:
A former UG leader was among three individuals who received bomb threats today.
Personnel of the state police bomb disposal squad safely defused all the bombs and disposed them off at safe places.
Police reports said that a hand grenade was hurled at the house of MI Khan also known as Islamuddin, former chairman of the People United Liberation Front (PULF), who was recently released from jail, in the early hours today.
A police bomb disposal squad retrieved the bomb from the front courtyard of house of the former militant at Keirao Makting Makha Leikai, Imphal east, under Irilbung police station, this morning around 7 am.
Which UG group was behind the bomb threat to MI Khan and the motive behind it could not be ascertained by the police as well as the family but police suspect activists of PULF, the outfit once he led could be behind the threat to the leader who had announced his retirement from the outfit after being arrested by security forces.
MI Khan was released from jail in the last week of March this year.
At the time of his release, he had announced he would contest in the forthcoming election to the Manipur Legislative Assembly.
Police further defused a hand grenade safely at the house of Kangabam Samananda Singh of Uripok Tourangbam Leikai Machin near the BT Flyover bridge in the heart of the Imphal city.
The bomb was hurled by suspected militants today around 9 am.
Another bomb wrapped in paper was found placed at a furniture house at Moirangkhom in the heart of Imphal around 11.30 am today.
Labourers at the Singh and Co Furniture House came to know the material wrapped with paper was a hand grenade only when they unfolded the wrapping paper after no one came to claim the material.
Police suspect the bomb was placed in connection with a monetary demand to the proprietor of the furniture house.