UPPK cadre arrested
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, January 14, 2012:
A combined team of Thoubal district police commandos and personnel of 15 Assam Rifles arrested one UPPK cadre during a search operation at Wangjing area at around 9.20 am today.
In a statement, SP of Thoubal District K Jayanta Singh has identified the arrested UPPK cadre has Moirangthem Totomsana alias Toto alias Nongsaba alias Tiger s/o M Tombiyaima of Heirok Part-II Mayai Leikai.
Preliminary interrogation revealed that the arrested UPPK cadre was involved in lobbing hand grenade at the residence of M Oken Singh, INC candidate of 33-Heirok A/C on January 10. It may be noted here that Totomsana filed his nomination papers to contest in the upcoming election to the 10th Manipur Legislative Assembly as Independent candidate.
But his candidature was rejected.
On the other hand, troops of 42 Assam Rifles of 26 Sector under IGAR(S) have reportedly arrested one KCP (MC) cadre identified as Md Amzad Khan (29) s/o Md Abdul Hakim of Keibung Wangmataba, Thoubal during an operation launched yesterday.
According to PRO Assam Rifles, two live rounds of 9 mm were recovered from the possession of the apprehendee who had been subsequently handed over along with the recovery items to Kakching Police station.