Vehicle smashed during chakka bandh in Manipur

Imphal, Dec 1 : Strikers attacked and smashed a vehicle said to belong to Kuki National Organisation (KNO), a Kuki based outfit under Suspension of Operation agreement with government for defying the dawn to dusk Churachandpur district Chakka bandh on Tuesday.

An official report received here said that the vehicle (Gypsy) in which some KNO officials were traveling with was forced to stop at Kangvai around 9 am today and the strike enforcers smashed the windshield.

A Joint Action Committee against the murder of village chief Ngamkholet Baite called the 12-hr chakka bandh effective from 5 am today in the entire Churachandpur district.

The bandh was called challenging the UKLF, a signatory of the tripartite SoO.

The chakka bandh severely affected normal life in the district as bandh supporters took to the streets and blocked vehicles defying the restriction.

Apart from deflating tyres of many vehicles, they also burnt debri on the road at various places to enforce the bandh.

Inter-district passenger service buses on the Imphal-Churachandpur section of NH-150 were also off the road as they fearing to defy the bandh.

Chief of Moljang village in Chandel district bordering with Churachandpur district Ngamkholet Baite (56) was shot dead by cadres of UKLF (United Kuki Liberation Front) after abducting him from his house on November 25 .

The UKLF charged that the chief was one of those who masterminded in floating a new underground outfit in the area.

However, the JAC denied it and charged that he killed in a merciless manner in front of his wife.

The JAC, in the statement, rejected the charges leveled against the chief as false and baseless.

Murdering someone without a warning and branding bad someone after killing him is unacceptable whatever might be the reason.

The government should book the culprits at the earliest, they demanded.