Further custody for JAC members till June 18
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 05 2019:
Chief Judicial Magistrate Imphal West today remanded 13 women members of the JAC constituted against the brutal killing of Kh Arun, to further judicial custody till June 18.The 13 women members of the JAC were booked for alleged involvement in the attack and destruction of Court property of Chief Judicial Magistrate and for assaulting an advocate on May 18.During the hearing, the 13 JAC members filed an application through their respective counsels for releasing them on bail following which the Court registered a cril misc bail case and fixed June 7 for the bail hearing.
The Court also directed the prosecution to submit the status report/ bail objection report along with case diary on or before June 7.It may be mentioned that the JAC members have been lodged in judicial custody since March 21 after they were arrested by Lamphel police on charges of attacking and destroying properties of Chief Judicial Magistrate Imphal East Court on May 18 after the wife of the deceased Kh Arun, Helen, was taken away from Lamphel Court complex by the security escort after her routine appearance before the Court in connection with murder trial of her husband.