CSOs raid Hotel Centre Point
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 21 2013:
Volunteers of different civil society organisations today raided Hotel Centre Point at MG Avenue and pulled up its manager.
Volunteers of 16 civil society organisations including CLK, IPSA, KEL, ACOAM Lup, PANDM etc raided the hotel and pulled up the manager, staff and four visitors including three women.
Parading all those persons rounded up in the course of the raid before media persons at the office of Kanglei Ema Lup at Uripok, leaders of the CSOs said that the raid was conducted with the objective of checking immoral practices committed at some hotels located at MG Avenue and Paona Bazar.
A large number of condoms both used and unused were recovered from dustbins kept in the hotel rooms.
While some people managed to flee away, the hotel manager, some of the staff and four other people including three women were pulled up.
Meanwhile, neighbouring people of Hotel Centre Point and shopkeepers of the area have lauded the CSOs for their raid in the hotel which was allegedly being run like a brothel.
Clandestine acitivites going inside the hotel for the last 20 years was a perpetual annoyance and eyesore to the staff/members of Manipur Khadi and Villages Industries association, Manipur Public Carrier Transport Cooperative Private Milisted, Smart Society etc.
Even as the hotel managers were warned repeatedly, they remained stubborn and strong-headed and refused to mend their ways, just because there was no objection from the hotel owners.The hotel was leased out by private individuals by one Manipur National Chamber of Commerce, said the CSO leaders.