Source: Hueiyen News Service
Kohima, March 02 2009:
Police today foiled a protest rally planned by the people in Bishnupur district today as part of the third phase of the agitation of the JAC formed in connection with the murder of the SDO, Dr Kishan and his two staff members.
Before the Bishnupur police commandos arrived, people who came from different parts of the district gathered in the the premises of the Bishnupur Keithel Yangoi Leima Shanglen, Bishnupur Bazar for taking out a procession around 11 am.
Police asked those who gathered there to leave the place stating that the proposed rally was organised without permission of the district magistrate.
The gathering people tried to convince the police stating that the rally is to be organized in a peaceful manner without any violence and disturbances.
There also erupted a heated argument between the organizers of the rally and police when police stick firm to its stand that without the permission of the district magistrate.
As a result of it the gathering people started leaving the place themselves.
The people once again gathered at a public ground and started carrying out the rally which police blocked at the start.
But on the requested of people, police allow them to submit a memorandum to the DC of the district demanding befitting punishment to the guilty NSCN(IM) cadres involved in the murder of the Dr Kishan and his two staff members.
It also demand to conduct a criminal investigation against the suspended DC Ukhrul, Pankaj Kumar Pal on the alleged conspiracy in the murder case and handing over the three members who were abducted together with the SDO to the people.