Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 06:
An eighteen year old girl was shot on her wrist by an armed youth at Lilongyangbi Leikai half a km North West of Lilong PS last night at around 10.The injured girl has been identified as one Ruhina Begum (18) d/o Md Abdul Salam of Lilongyanbi Leikai.
She received a bullet wound on her left wrist.
She is presently recuperating at RIMS Ortho Ward after undergoing an operation this morning.
According to reports, two armed men who identified themselves as cadres of a particular underground outfit came to the house of Md Abdul Salam who works as a lineman at the Thoubal Electricity office last night and demanded some money.
Md Abdul who went out and tried to negotiate with the two persons failed and tempers rose.
Meanwhile, Ruhini Begum who was sleeping in one of the rooms adjacent to the courtyard where Abdul and the two armed person were talking got out of her bed and walked out of her room on hearing the commotion.
Shocked on seeing one of the youths pointing a gun on her father s head, she rushed out tried to remove the gun from her father's head and in the melee the gunmen fired hitting Ruhini on her left wrist.
On seeing her daughter being hit by a bullet, Md Abdul Salam raised an alarm and called out for help to his neighbours.
Seeing the gravity of the situation the two armed youths fled the scene leaving behind a motorcycle (Pulsar red MN 01/5219).The motorcycle was later smashed to pieces by the mob which had gathered following the alarm raised by Md Abdul Salam.
According to family members, one of the youth has been identified as Md Feroze Khan alias Abung (27) s/o Taher of Lilong Turel Ahangbi.
They further informed that he is a cadre of the proscribed outfit PULF and had been jailed on one occasion after being apprehended with a grenade from North AOC some months back.
Immediately after being released from jail, he had come to Md Abdul and demanded a sum of Rs one lakh.
Following constant pressure from Feroze, a sum of Rs 40,000 had been given.