Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, August 03 2010:
Two personnel of Thoubal district police commandos sustained injuries when a mob in Ushoipokpi area of Thoubal district under Lilong police station attacked them at about 9.30 pm tonight.
Reports said the mob attacked the police commando team of five personnel who went there for a raid to contraband item in the area.
The injured personnel were Havildar N Somendro and driver Robindro.
Somendro received serious injuries at the head and other parts of the body while Robindro received minor injury.
They have been hospitalized at Shija Hospital.
A police source said that the five men police commando team rushed to the house of one Md Sanayai of Lilong Ushoipokpi based on tipoff of concealing some contraband items in his house.
On seeing the police commandos, family members alarmed the locals shouting that some miscreants intruded in their house.
Locals rushed to the house and chased after the police commandos with deadly weapons in their hands.
Some of them armed with double bore guns and fired towards the police commandos.
The police commandos also fired some round for protecting themselves.
Two of the personnel were overpowered by the mob and beaten up them while the rest three managed well to their escapes from the mob.
However, local source said that the police commandos in a Gypsy entered to the House of Sanayai in the manner like the undergrounds while the local residents are anguish over the extortion demand served by a group of undergrounds to Sanayai.
Mob could not recognized that they are police commandos immediately, locals said adding after knowing them to be police commandos, they stopped beating them up.
They also asked how the police commandos of five personnel in a gypsy entered to the village when the law and order of the situation is not good.