Cop succumbs to bullet wound
Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network
Imphal, September 11 2012:
The Manipur police constable who had suffered a bullet injury after an Assistant Sub-inspector of City Police accidentally fired a shot at him, succumbed today at Shija hospital in Imphal.
The incident occurred on September 5 at the City police station when ASI AK Deven shot and wounded Constable Chabungbam Iboyaima with his service pistol.
One bullet hit in the right side neck of Iboyaima and remained stuck.
He died at 6 am at the private hospital after undergoing treatment for the last one week.
His condition deteriorated at the ICU of the hospital since the doctors could not conduct surgery to take out the bullet stuck inside his neck as the case was complicated.
Meanwhile, the ASI involved in the fatal incident has been remanded to judicial custody.
In an unrelated incident Tuesday, suspected militants placed a Chinese hand grenade at the courtyard of Lamlongei Gram Panchayat Pradhan.
Lamlongei falls under Lamshang Police Station in Imphal West.
The incident happened around 8:30 a.m.when family members of Pradhan Waikhom Keinahanbi, 48, found the hand grenade lying right at the centre of the courtyard, reports said.
The family informed the police who rushed to the site and retrieved the bomb.
They later defused it in an open field elsewhere in Lamshang around 10:30 a.m. The motive behind the bomb threat was unknown.
No group has claimed responsibility for the incident so far.