Guwahati police detain Maheshwar
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, June 11 2023:
Republican Par-ty of India (Athawale) national secretary Ma-heshwar Thounaojam was detained by Gu-wahati police after he went to participate in a meeting organised by Guwahati-based Meitei community on Sunday over the prevailing vio-lence in Manipur.
Police also prevented conduct of the meeting.
According to a reli-able source, Maheshwar had left for Guwahati on Saturday to attend the meeting on Sun-day and was staying at Novotel Hotel, GS Road Downtown.
At midnight, high ranking officers of Guwahati Po-lice arrived at the hotel and set up a security perimeter.
The police officers met with Ma-heshwar and informed him that the meeting cannot be convened.
If the meeting is con-vened, no media is to be invited and he is not to make any statements to the media.
This led to a brief stand-off be-tween him and the po-lice.
Later, members of RPI (Athawale), Assam secured his release from the police custody.