Women's organisations condemn killing
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, December 20 2022:
Poirei Leimarol Meira Paibi Apunba Manipur and All Manipur Women's Voluntary Association (AMAWOVA) have denounced the killing of a woman named Laishram Ibetombi, who was watching FIFA World cup final match at her Singjamei Wangma Kongba road Bheigyabati Leikai residence, by a stray bullet on December 18.A joint statement issued by Poirei Leimarol secretary Th Apabi and AMAWOVA general secretary Ksh Sujata said that using firearm as a mark of celebration by taking undue advantage of bursting firecrackers is against the law.
Firing weapon in residential area and considering firearms as a toy is a wrong thing and an act which consider the lives of people in a trivial manner, it contended.
While stating that a licence gun is a weapon for self-protection, the joint release urged authority concerned to issue gun license carefully and further demanded arrest and punishment of the culprit(s) at the earliest.
It also shared the pain and grief of the bereaved family.