Ex-MLA freed from jail
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 21 2014 :
Former Wangoi assembly constituency MLA Salam Joy, arrested by the NLA in Guwahati last year, has been released from detention.
Salam Joy, arrested after NIA summoned him to the Assam capital in October last, for his alleged connection with armed organisation KCP Mobile Task Force (Kesho Meitei group), arrived at around 3.15 pm at Tulihal Airport, where he was accorded warm welcome by his supporters.
Rejecting the NIA charges, Salam Joy confessed to newspersons at the airport at he indeed went to meet KCP (MTF) representatives due to constant threat that he, his family members and political workers will be killed if he did not comply to the armed group's intimation.
The former legislator also termed his arrest by the NIA as political assassination.