Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 19 2009:
The proscribed KCP has clarified that L Shamjai, his wife Thoi, Bikash s/o Shamjai and Silla d/o of Shamjai of Khangabok and M Amuba of the same locality, arrested by a combined team of Imphal West and Thoubal district commandos and troops of 28th AR along with a huge cache of arms and ammunition from the home of Shamjai on July 15 were innocent civilians.
Saying that these individuals were not related to the party in any manner, the outfit regretted that these individuals fell in trouble because some party cadres put the arms ammunition in the house under certain compelling situation.
A press release issued by the outfit's CFR cum secretary DIPR in-charge Tabungba Meitei alleged that list of seized arms and ammunition was incomplete.
The exact number of arms and ammunition seized by the combined security team was three AK 56 rifles and six magazines with 180 live rounds, four Lathode guns with 10 live rounds, three .32 automatic pistols and nine magazines with 45 live rounds, four 9 mm pistols with 65 live rounds, eight Chinese hand grenades, three wireless sets, three mobile phone handsets, four receipt books and four RTs.
It further alleged that the concealed weapons were meant for utilisation in fake encounters in which security forces would claim recovery of these weapons from innocent people after killing them.