Bomb explodes; cops, UG held
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 13 2017:
Ahead of the Independence Day celebration scheduled on August 15, a bomb exploded at Kakwa Naorem Leikai in front of the Nong-pok Panthoibi premises at around 9.40 am today .
According to information culled from the spot, the bomb exploded near a power transformer installed on the side of Imphal-Moreh highway .
However, there was no report of any casualty .
The explosion left a crater and its impacts perforated GI sheets which covered a nearby bus-stand .
Imphal West SSP Themthing Ngasangva and 6 Assam Rifles CO Colonel Indrajit came and inspected the blast site .
A Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad of Manipur Police too came and scan-ned the area .
It is suspected that the bomb was an IED equipped with timer .
Meanwhile, Imphal West commandos arrested three individuals including two police personnel allegedly involved in the blast and also recovered a huge amount of explosive materials, today evening .
According to a reliable source, acting on specific inputs from sources and 6 Assam Rifles, a team of Imphal West commandos acting under the supervision of Senior SP Imphal West, Themthing Ngasangva, led by Additional SP Imphal West, N Modhunimai and assisted by DSP (Commando), Amit and Inspector P Achouba, OC, swung into action and managed to arrest three individuals alleg- edly involved in the blast .
Sources said that one of the individual was arrested from near Singjamei police station and the other two were arrested from Koirou Part I .
The individuals have been identified as Thingbaijam Sanjoy (35) s/o Th Dronjit of Kakwa Naorem Leikai, P Yaima Maring (29) s/o P Angphun of Khanggoi Khullen, presently staying at Machi and Sapam Nanda alias Makar (50) s/o S Sanatomba of Bashikhong Torban .
The police also recovered a huge quantity of explosive materials from the arrested individuals including 81 number of gelatin sticks (power gel), two TNT cases weighing around one pound each, six circuits and four mobile phones with sim cards .
During preliminary interrogation, the arrested individuals revealed that they are working under the command of one self style Major Prem Kumar alias Aheiba Angom alias PK, Chief of Finance, PREPAK .
Sometime before the bomb exploded, some personnel of 6 AR who were on ROP duty were present at the bus-stand .
Meanwhile, taking strong exception to the explosion, local womenfolk staged a protest demonstration at the bus-stand .
Notably, two IEDs exploded at Moreh and Wangjing Tekcham Leikai yesterday.