Sit-in staged against killing
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 26 2016:
Family members along with locals of Old
Checkon Bazar, Nongmeibung today staged a sit-in-protest de-
crying the suspicious death of B Pittaranjan alias Korabin on April
24.
B Pravin who recovered the lifeless body of his younger
brother on April 24 from a gorge at Kangkum village, Ukhrul,
said he along with Kangkum village chief had filed a missing
report at Kasom Khullen police station a day prior to the
discovery.
Pittaranjan reportedly left home for Ukrul on April 19 to
meet a girl whom he was reportedly seeing from Kangkum
village.
Urging the authority concerned to book the culprits at the
earliest, Pravin said the family would not claim the body from
RIMS morgue until justice is delivered.
A similar protest was staged by Nongmeibung Meira Paibi
at Old Checkon Bazar today.
A public meeting attended by 5 local clubs and Meira Paibi
associations under Nongmeibung that was held later today
formed a JAC in connection with the death.