3 including cop hurt in election scuffle
Source: The Sangai Express
Thoubal, February 23 2017:
Three people including a police personnel were injured during an election scuffle at Wangjing Wangkhei under Wangjing Tentha A/C today.
Some people near the CPI office threw stones at the INC candidate Paonam Brojen of Wangjing Tentha Kendra after he and his workers returned from a house campaign at around 11.30 am, reports our correspondent.
Both the party workers started throwing stones at each other leading to a commotion.
SDPO Thoubal Sangkerdev and a police team led by OC RK Tejbir went to calm down the scuffle but had to control the situation by firing tear gas shells.
Two workers of Brojen, one identified as Ngangom James including a police personnel identified as Sushil were hurt in the incident.