Sit-in held against monetary demand
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 01 2015 :
A protest demonstration was staged at Thoubal Athokpam Awang Leikai against monetary demands served indiscriminately by a militant group to all the shopkeepers and household of Thoubal Athokpam bazar.
In the meantime, one Santro car parked in the residential compound of a family against whom a monetary demand was served by the same militant group was torched by some unidentified persons yesterday.
One woman protester said that the demand letters served to the shopkeepers and households of Thoubal Athokpam bazar were in the form of small pieces of paper and they were embossed with the word KCP.
The demand of Rs 5 lakh from each shopkeepers who are struggling for their livelihood is simply unacceptable, the woman added.
The protesters put up placards which read as "Withdraw monetary demands served to shopkeepers of Athokpam Bazar", "We want peace", "We condemn all acts of arson" etc.