Trainee SIs, ASIs protest
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 15 2016:
A protest was staged by 376 under training Sub-Inspectors and Assistant Sub-Inspectors at Manipur Police Training Centre (MPTC), Pangei in Imphal East against the Manipur Home Department for allegedly delaying their passing out parade.
They locked down the main gate of the training centre and barricaded the road with wooden logs since early morning.
Reports said one police personnel was thrashed by the protesters during a skirmish.
One of the protesters who did not want to be named said the 376 SIs and ASIs have already finished their training period on February 16.He said their demand for holding the passing out parade before the upcoming Yaoshang (Holi) festival was declined.
Displeased over the delay, they protested, he added.
Additional Superintendent of Police Priyadarshini Laishram in-charge of the police training centre rushed to the site to pacify them.
One of the police personnel escorting the SP was roughed up by a group of protesters during a skirmish.
The police officer later managed to quell the agitation.