Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 17:
The proscribed PREPAK has offered revolutionary salute to its slain cadre 2nd Lt Gurumayum Umakant alias Ahanjao alias Bobo (33) of Kwakeithel Thokchom Leikai.
A press release issued by the outfit's department of publicity and propaganda secretary in-charge Aheiba Angom flatly rejected the police claim that Bobo was killed in retaliatory fire during an encounter with a combined force of Imphal East commandos and troops of 32 Assam Rifles at Bashikhong in the morning of June 14 while three other companions managed to escape.
The outfit strongly contended that 2nd Lt Bobo was apprehended by the combined force from Nungpokpi Mamang Leikai in Imphal East district at about 3.10 am of June 14.From there Bobo was taken to another location where the combined force subjected him to extreme form of torture resulting in the death of Bobo.
Then Bobo was taken to Bashikhong where three bullets were pumped into his lifeless body just to claim that the 2nd Lt was killed in encounter, Aheiba alleged.
Disclosing that Bobo underwent military training in the outfit's 7th batch, the outfit hailed the slain cadre for several outstanding achievements citing an ambush undertaken by PREPAK cadres under Bobo as fighting commander on October 4 last year at Khonglon in which six CRPF personnel were killed besides injuring more than seven personnel.
The outfit further shared the pain and grief being endured by the bereaved family.