Patsoi police accused of threatening Loumi Lup member
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, January 11 2023:
Konthoujam Area Committee Manipur Loumi Lup strongly condemned alleged threatening at gun point and abusing its secretary and Manipur Loumi Lup state council member Oinam Munal Meitei by a team of Patsoi police on January 1.In a release, Committee president M Rupa Singh contended that a Patsoi police team that came in a Maruti Gypsy numbered 553 threatened Oinam Munal when he was in a paddy field at Moidangpok Maning trying to make arrangement as his paddy is facing water scarcity.
The police team used abusive language and even threatened by questioning whether he did not aware that they have weapon.
Despite his repeated reply that he was simply making arrangement in his field as adjoining paddy fields are lower level than his, the police team turned a deaf ear, the release said.
It is unfortunate that law enforcement agency threatened a person who is simply trying to increase his food production, Rupa lamented, while adding that legal actions should be taken up against the perpetrators.