Mob charged of robbery
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, April 13 2011:
A day after his house cum shop was ransacked by a mob from Kongpal Laishram Leikai, the owner of a hardware shop adjacent to the Ng Raghu's house, Wahengbam Shamu, today claimed of missing of cash kept in his shop, M/s Ima Steel.
Shamu, brother-in-law of Ng Raghu, informed that he had lodged a complaint with the Porompat PS today.
Addressing reporters today at Manipur Press Club, Wahengbam Shamu claimed that the mob broke open a wooden cash box and took away ' 4,80,000.Besides, in the melee, ' 1,20,000 (sale proceeds of his shop), 60 bundles of wire, 40 water tanks of 500 litre capacity and other materials in the shop were missing, he alleged.
Recalling yesterday's incident, Shamu said that he was not at the shop at the time of the incident but salesman Moirangthem Hemanta (21) of Khurai Chaithabi Leirak was alone in the shop.
However, he did not suspect him in the missing of the belongings of the shop.
Hemanta, who has been working in the shop as salesman for the last one and a half years, was alone in the shop when the mob armed with deadly weapons stormed the shop.
He ran away when the mob started targeting the shop, he added.
Even though, he is the brother-in-law of Ng Raghu, he has nothing to do with the death of Yendrembam Naoba of Kongpal Laishram Leikai.
He was not among the suspects accused in the murder charge.
He said, though the shop is located at the land belonging to the main suspect Ng Raghu he is running the shop on rent.