Bongbal condemns kidnap
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 10 2016:
Bongbal Village Authority and Bongbal Youth
Club today jointly denounced the abduction of
Tondonba Singh in the first week of April from
a labour camp situated between Takvom and
Tuingam village in Churachandpur district.
Tondonba, an excavator driver engaged by a
special contractor was kidnapped for ransom
by unidentified armed men and his whereabouts
is still not known, our correspondent reports.
A statement issued by Bongbal VA and
Bongbal YC also expressed their displeas-
ure with newspaper reports that wrongly
named the village while carrying the kidnap-
ping story.
The attempt to tarnish the image of
Bongbal must stop, it stated adding that the
villagers stand by the victim's family in their
difficult time.
The village authority has also appealed to
the abductors to identify themselves before
the public.