Escorted trucks suffer wrath of KPI CSOs
Source: Chronicle News Service
Kangpokpi, January 21 2022:
Many escorted trucks heading towards to Dimapur side were seen with broken windshields on Friday morning as volunteers of Kangpokpi CSOs enforced ban on movement of all commercial trucks in connection with the hit-and-run case.
A total bandh on all commercial trucks including tankers-plying along the National Highway 2 has been imposed since midnight of January 20 by civil bodies of Kangpokpi spearheaded by KSO Sadar Hills over a hit-and-run case.
On January 19 early morning, an unidentified Imphal-bound truck hit a young man at Keithelmanbi military colony and fled the scene, leaving the young man to die on the spot.
His lifeless body is still lying at the morgue.
In connection with the incident, the civil bodies of Kangpokpi served a 24-hour ultimatum for the accused to surrender or the police to find the accused.
The ultimatum expired on January 20 midnight.
As the accused failed to surrender as well as the police failed to find the accused within the given 24-hour deadline, the civil bodies of Kangpokpi imposed the total bandh, banning movement of all commercial trucks including tankers from Thursday midnight.
KSO Sadar Hills, in an earlier press conference, had made a fervent appeal to the accused and truck owners and drivers' associations to resolve the matter amicably to avoid such agitation.
It also urged the state government to take the matter very seriously.
Movement of the escorted trucks and tankers despite the appeal enraged the already infuriated mob who damaged the windshields of the escorted trucks and tankers at Keithelmanbi on Friday morning.
It is also reported that the civil bodies of Kangpokpi under the aegis of KSO Sadar Hills may intensify the stir and impose total bandh of all vehicles along the National Highway 2 unless the culprit in the hit-and-run case is arrested.
Meanwhile, there is a report that the civil bodies of Kangpokpi and KSO Sadar Hills leaders were talking with the government representatives late Friday evening but nothing could be ascertained till the time of filing this report.