Manipur government asks DGP to recover arms and ammunition looted from armouries and Churachandpur
Manipur Human Rights Commission (MHRC), state government has asked the Director General of police (DGP) to recover the arms and ammunition, looted by the attackers and miscreants during the ethnic riot from the armouries of security forces and the Churachandpur gun shop.
Manipur government’s Commissioner (Home) T. Ranjit Singh in a most urgent letter to the DGP, Deputy Commissioners of all 16 districts, Secretaries of Rural Development, Education and Health Departments directed to take immediate necessary actions on the recommendations of the rights panel.
After visiting various districts and relief camps including worst violence hit district Churachandpur MHRC headed by its Chairperson Justice Utpalendu Bikas Saha (retired) earlier this month in a letter to Manipur Chief Secretary Vineet Joshi made six point recommendations.
According to various reports during the ethnic riots, which broke out on May 3, over 4,000 different types of sophisticated arms and lakhs of different kinds of ammunition were looted from the police stations and police outposts by the mobs, attackers and militants.
Inspector General of Police (Operations) I.K.
