JCILPS condemns police brutality
Source: Hueiyen News Service

Imphal, August 03 2015: Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS) has condemned the police brutality meted out to student protesters on Monday.

Several students sustained injuries in the police crackdown.

A statement released by JCILPS Assistant Media Coordinator Md Kheiruddin Moijingmayum accused the Government of trying to kill more students by re-opening all educational institutes sans maintaining a proper academic atmosphere.

It stated that such steps of the Government could claim more lives as the body of Sapam Robinhood is yet to be claimed and cremated.

Resumption of normal classes is impossible without fulfilling the demands of the people, it insisted.

14 students hurt in police crackdown

JCILPS will not remain as a silent spectator over the police brutality meted out to students during a protest staged in front of the State Secretariat, the statement said. It said even girl students were not spared by the cops who kicked and punched them all over their bodies.

The Government is using violent means to suppress the public ILP movement spearheaded by the Joint Committee, besides students who are giving an impetus to the movement are being tortured mercilessly, it said and declared that such moves are futile.

14 students hurt in police crackdown

This ruthlessness of the Government is growing up without restraint in its effort to sideline the core issue of ILPS, the Joint Committee rued and charged that the Government is not keen to introduce an ILP bill that can protect the indigenous people.

It stated that the people know that the student community of the State had signed Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) on two occasions in 1980 and 1984 to safeguard the indigenous people against the unrestricted entry of non-locals into Manipur.

The Joint Committee also urged the people to intensify the ongoing civil disobedience movement against the Government until all demands are met.