Newmai News Network Imphal | October 25 All Tribal Students’ Union Manipur (ATSUM) has alleged that Manipur police attempted to raid its office located at Adimjati Complex, Chingmeirong in Imphal at around 1:30 PM today on charge of kidnapping a student. Strongly condemning the "attempted raid" by the police, the apex tribal students' body said in a statement that, “This kind of intimidation and aggressive act are unwarranted and uncalled for.” As an apex tribal students’ organisation, ATSUM office is a home to every tribal especially the students, it said adding that it "has every right" to invite any tribal student for discussion on any student’s or tribal issue. “At the backdrop of government colleges/higher secondary schools election related violence occurring annually in the heart of the state capital, ATSUM has been working on to minimize such incident by calling on the tribal students, particularly the candidates to its office and ask to refrain from such ugly incidence," it maintained. "In the course of sensitizing the students, the state police under the persuade of some students’ organization attempted to raid the ATSUM office,” the Union added. It further demanded the concerned authority to “resolve the charge of kidnapping of a student” at the earliest by booking the culprits who made "the false allegation" and "mislead" the police.
