Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, July 18 2010:
The car hijacked by the undergrounds after shooting to injure a 50-year old man, a close associate of the state health and family welfare minister, Ph Parijat has been recovered from Yaingangpokpi Mamang Leikai under Lamlai police station today.
Meanwhile, the injured car owner Elangbam Shyamkishor, with bullet hit at back pierced in the right chest, evacuated at JNIMS hospital has bee referred to Shija Hospital as his condition become critical today.
Shyamkishor of Yaingangpokpi under Lamlai police station was shot at by four miscreants who forced him to drive his car to drop them upto Sekta was shot at to injure last night, at about 10 pm.
They shot at him before his wife who accompanied them in the car on the way when he refused to drive the car to the house of the minister at Nongada village, local report said.
The car (Alto brand bearing registration no.MN01-/3689) was recovered by the police in the morning, at about 6 am.
Decrying the incident of shooting, villagers of Yaingangpokpi today staged a sit-in protest at the village.
They urged the underground groups not to indulge such kind of violence when they could not target the minister.