Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 27 2010:
Suspected Kuki militants have captured a labourer in connection with a demand of Rs five lakhs.
According to a police source, the labourer was captured from Laingoubi Chingjin under Kumbi police station in Bishnupur district at about 5 pm of December 25 .
For construction of a new Government building a Sangaikot, six labourers were taking construction materials, mostly timber in a truck.
But they were stopped by some unidentified persons on their way to the work site.
Then the armed persons held back one of the labourers.
The armed persons numbering three came on a motorcycle and stopped the truck near Laingoubi Chingjin.
Then they checked all the people travelling in the truck one by one and confiscated mobile phones from the labourers.
Later, they held back head mason Md Abdul Hei (40) of Terakhongshangbi and freed the others.
The whereabouts of Abdul Hei could not be ascertained till date.The contract work to construct the Government building was allotted to a son for former Speaker Maniruddin Sheikh and in this connection he was served a monetary demand.