CSOs appeal for sanity
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, June 26 2014: While urging the Government to book the culprits involved in the murder of Mayengbam Krishnadas, AMUCO, ZU Imphal Zone, UCM and the Kabui Mothers' Association have made a fervent appeal to all the people not to add any communal tinge to the murder case.

Speaking to media persons at Manipur Press Club here today, ZU Imphal Zone advisor Rosochandra Haomei said that Sangaiprou Kabui Khul and surrounding Meitei villages have been living together in complete harmony but the Kabui village is now being looked upon with suspicious eyes because of the Government's failure to book the murderers of Mayengbam Krisnadas.

Urging the Government to book the culprits, Rosochandra also appealed to all the civil societies to help in tracking and pulling up the culprits.

UCM vice president Chandramani Khumancha observed that the State Home Department's action in the aftermath of the killing of Krishnadas is far from being satisfactory.

Bishnupur Police 2nd OC M Krishnadas was stabbed to death by a pointed object before his body was abandoned at Sangaiprou Kabui Khul.

UCM would support whatever course of action decided upon by the JAC constituted against the murder and see that justice is done.

He also appealed to all the people to exercise sanity and refrain from adding any communal picture to the murder case.

If the Government fails to book the culprits, in the meantime, it should bear full responsibility for all the effects and impacts of people's agitation.

UCM general secretary K Joychandra said that the Home Department's failure to pull up the culprits after Krishnadas was killed on June 21 only exposed the department's inefficacy.

AMUCO president Y Mani appealed to all the people not to make hasty reactions based on mere suspicions.

Rather, all the people should work together to ensure that the culprits are punished according to law regardless of their ethnicity.

AMUCO vice president Deban said that police should investigate whether the murder of Krishnadas was plotted by communal elements or whether it had any connection with his professional career.

However, the Government has not taken up due initiative till date, he decried.

The Government responds or intervenes only when there is public uproar, he noted.

Kabui Mothers' Association president Kakomlunglu Kamei said it lacks justification to blame Sangaiprou Kabui Khul just because the lifeless body of Krishnadas was abandoned near the village.

The Government should hunt down the killers and at the same time, civil societies should stand united against all such crimes, Kakomlunglu added.

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