Thadou Students' Association (TSA) warns
Source: The Sangai Express/ Newmai News Network
Imphal, December 15 2012:
The Thadou Students' Association, General Headquarters (TSA-Ghq) while strongly condemning the December 11-12 incident when three persons from Chandel district were tortured allegedly by Manipur police commandos and Army personnel, has demanded the authority concerned to book the culprits at the earliest or else it would launch a series of intense agitation.
The TSA-Ghq terms the incident as inhuman and shocking.
"How can security force personnel who are supposed to be the law keepers commit such act ?" the apex Thadou student body asks.
"There is nothing more criminal in the eye of the law if the law keepers violate the law," it added.
The TSA also said that torturing someone amounts to violating human rights.
The apex Thadou student body then said all social organisations should join hands to fight against such inhuman activities of the security force personnel.
Mention may be made here that three persons from Chandel district were picked up by the combined team of the Army and the Manipur police commandos and toutured them and also robbed off Rs 90,000 from the three victims before they were left with bruises, according to the Thadou Students Association, Chandel district
(TSA-Chandel district) .
Lalboi Mate (38) of Khudengthabi village, Thanglal Baite (36), of Moreh town Ward No.9 and Haopu Mate (36), also from Moreh Ward No 9 were on Christmas marketing at Paona bazar in Imphal when the security force personnel claiming themselves as the combined team of the Army and the Manipur police commandos picked them up, blinded folded and took them elsewhere at around 7:30 pm on December 11, alleged the Thadou Students Association, Chandel district.
The three people were tortured by the security force personnel during the night accusing them as criminals.
The victims mobile phone handsets (Nokia brand) were also taken away by the security people, further alleged the TSA-Chandel district.
These three persons were left the following morning near FCI godown at Sangaiprou area in Imphal, it added.