CCTV footage nails RIMS attackers
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, June 11 2012: Two militants, who placed a hand grenade at the administrative block of the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Imphal , have been pulled up recently through an in-depth study of the duo's video footage captured by the Close Circuit Television (CCTV) camera installed at the block.

The 1074 hospital cum institution has come under a number of attack in the past too with unidentified persons lobbing and triggering bomb explosions inside its premises.

Tension gripped RIMS on April 23 morning after some unidentified persons placed a bomb wrapped in a polythene bag at the entrance gate of the institute's administrative block.

"Seconds after we received the report, we rushed there and safely retrieved the bomb that later turned out to be a hand grenade," officer-in-charge of Lamphel police station inspector N Ingocha Singh said today while speaking to reporters.

Having learnt that the CCTV camera installed at the spot was on, the footage recorded by it at the relevant time was seized and the same was studied by a team of police and commando officers to ascertain the identity of the culprits, he said.

"During the study of the video footage, one officer slightly recognised one of the two culprits who placed the grenade," said the OC and added that the individual was pulled up from his Kongba Uchekon residence in the afternoon of April 28 for verification.

"The individual initially denied being the grenade planter, but when the footage was shown to him, he later admitted his involvement and through his revelation, the other rebel was also arrested from his Lamambung Makhong residence close to Rims," the police officer said.

The two admitted that they were engaged by an outfit to place the grenade as the Rims authority failed to allot a certain quota to the group for recruitment of nurses in the institute, he said adding that the two have been remanded to judicial custody.

"It was a joint effort of my superior, the Sub-Divisional Police Officer, Lamphel, me and a few commando officers that led us to arrest the two cadres through a prolonged study of the CCTV camera footage," Ingocha said.

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