Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 04:
Apropos to the news item published in The Sangai Express on October 1 under the caption "Churachandpur scribes decry police rudeness", the Churachandpur Dist Police Department has clarified that no press conference was called at all at the Churachandpur SP's office vis-�-vis the DGP's visit to Churachandpur on September 30.Stating that the press may have been informed by their police sources about the visit as done on earlier occasion, it said that the media persons were asked to wait outside after the photo session as the Dept's officials had some very important official matters to discuss.
However, the media persons hurriedly left the SP's office despite being told to wait for a while for discussions, it added.
It the reporters had come prepared for holding a press conference at the SP's office, it was a clear case of misinformation and communication gap which is highly regretted, it said adding that the Churachandpur police had always cooperated with the local press and at no point of time had the Churachandpur police physically or verbally abused the local mediapersons.
It also stated that the Churachandpur Reporter Forum's accusing the Churachandpur police of committing "one of the rarest of rare cases in modern world" is pure over reaction which will do no good to the police-press relationship.