DIMAPUR, AUGUST 22 (MExN): Reacting to the accusations made by the United Committee of Manipur (UCM) that the NSCN (IM) was sheltering criminals, the latter has clarified that it was a ‘people based movement’ and always at the call of people’s aspiration—be it political or social problems. “And based on its own justice delivering system legal actions are initiated after doing the rounds of investigation”, stated a press note issued by the MIP NSCN (IM).
The NSCN (IM) stated that its intelligence wing was able to arrest the culprits behind the Dimapur bomb blast while the State police came a cropper and legal actions taken against the culprits.
In the case of Lungnila Elizabeth, the NSCN (IM) tracked down the kingpin James Kuki and released him on parole. “The CBI arrested him in Dimapur while the NSCN was doing its own business to complete the case. Further investigation was obstructed thereby”, the NSCN (IM) clarified.
With regard to Mohini Martin and Hriini Hubert, it was clarified that the case had been taken up in the manner demanded and legal action taken against those involved in committing such inhumane crime.
The NSCN (IM) further stated that the recent Senapati case of Late Manmaya alias Manju is also going in the right direction and very soon legal action shall be taken against the murderer Kahokamang alias Hormi Ningthoukaba.
It was also disclosed that with regard to the kidnapping of Mohini Martin and Hriini Hubert the NSCN (IM) strongly suspect that one of the valley based underground groups were in search of two kidneys to be transplanted for their survival. “It is our assumption that the two kids were kidnapped to serve the purpose”.
The NSCN (IM) also ridiculed the UCM by stating that the latter came into existence in Imphal Valley as a “panic reaction of the Meiteis to the Indo-Naga peace process” and that the real elements behind the formation of the anti-Naga UCM were also an open secret. The NSCN (IM) as such stated that the accusations against the NSCN (IM) for sheltering criminals were a manifestation of the “discomfort and nuisance created by the UCM underground masters in Manipur”.
“Taking potshots at the NSCN at this juncture of Indo-Naga peace process is therefore not surprising at all”, the NSCN (IM) stated adding that other than to smear the face of NSCN and to organize all sorts of anti-Naga programme, the UCM had no meaning or basis for existence other than to be a false nomenclature confined in Imphal valley.
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