Source: The Sangai Express / S Singlianmang Guite
Lamka, October 24:
Two youths who were extorting ransom in the name of Manipur Students Federation was apprehended yesterday near Bethany Christian Hr Sec School by Churachandpur District Students' Union leaders.
The duo identified as Iqbal Hussein, 22 of Kwakta ward No.3 and Azad Khan, 27 of Awang Leikai Imphal were allegedly apprehended while trying to collect money from three invigilators who were on duty at the ongoing Open school examination.
According to one of the invigilator, the youths have made a demand to him another two colleagues on the pretext of permitting unfair means at the ongoing Open senior secondary school examination.
Of the twenty thousand each demanded from the three invigilators, Rs.2900 have been paid on the 17th October, 2007 at a hotel in front of the school.
According to CDSU leaders, the duo had initially as claimed to the invigilators said they belong to MSF but later added that they also belongs to All Kangleipak Students' Union (AKSU).
One of the individual is even alleged to have claimed that he was the vicepresident of AKSU.
As police have registered a case of extortion against the duo following an FIR lodge by the CDSU, the police have placed them in their custody.
Laparoscopic surgery done at CCpur Hospital: In milestone feat, Laparoscopic Surgery was successfully conducted on a boy at the District Hospital here for the first time ever.
A decade may have already elapsed when the state first witnesses such an operation, but the operation conducted yesterday was the first of its kind in the state run hospitals.
Persistent efforts made by the doctors and the people as well in developing the crucial hospital has marked several equipments installed at the hospital in recent years, though with a snail pace.
The district hospital here records the second highest number of surgical operation conducted in any government run hospitals, surpassing even the repute JN Hospital.
But, on many occasion the hospital has run out of oxygen even to perform emergency operations apparently due to the lack of interest by the government.
Even on this day, though the hospital witnesses such a landmark development, it is worth mentioning that the operation was conducted in an outdated and very congested Operation Theatre � its only theatre.
Practically, the hospital has gone hi-tech with surgeons of all departments � Surgery, Orthopaedics, Gynaecology, ENT and Eye taking their turn in exploiting the theatre.