Three held
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 09 2015 :
A joint team of Imphal west cyber crime unit and Imphal west district police under the supervision of Imphal West Additional SP (Law and Order) S Ibomcha arrested three youths from their respective houses for assaulting a sugercane juice hawker at Khagempali area some days back.
According to a reliable source, they were arrested at around 1.10 pm today.
Soon after the video of the incident was found on the social networking site Facebook, Imphal west cyber crime unit traced the location and arrested all the involved youth after taking up a suo motu case against them.
The arrested youths have been identified as Maibam Vibex (19) s/o M Brojendro of Khagempalli Pankha Ningom Leirak, Elangbam Shibananda alias Boinao (19) s/o E Sobha of Keisamthong Elangbam Leikai and Konjenbam Ricky alias Momo (20) s/o K Gopal of Khagempalli.
Vibex allegedly captured the video and Shibananda and Ricky assaulted the non-local.
It may be mentioned that soon after the video went viral on the internet, people from different sections of the society condemned the incident.