Imphal, July 30 2009: To suppress the activities of various underground organisations in the State, the Government of Manipur has taken up necessary measures to give cash award to anyone who can provide information on the leaders and chief functionaries of these organisations.

According to a reliable source, the proposal for rewarding anyone who can provide information including the hideouts of the leaders and other chief functionaries of various underground organisations, with the main objective of suppressing their activities, has been placed from the side of the Police Department.

Disclosing that information about the leaders of PLA, UNLF, KYKL, PREPAK and KCP, etc, are listed among the top list, for whom the award would be announced, the source informed that the amount of the cash reward would vary and for information on the leaders of one particular UG group, the cash reward would be upto Rs 10 lakhs.

The named outfits are all banned organisations.

This proposal for cash reward to informer is likely to be taken up for discussion and consideration by the State Cabinet very soon, the source said, adding that acting on the advice of the Central Government State Government would be henceforth be taking up more stringent measures to curb insurgency in the State.

Meanwhile, the State Police Department has reportedly submitted a report to the Government in connection with its investigation into the organisations and student bodies which are allegedly related to various UG groups.

In the said report, some of the student bodies have been described as frontal organisations, the source said, adding that it is upto to the Government now to decide what action would be taken up against such student bodies.

It may be recalled here that along with taking a decision earlier, the State Cabinet had entrusted the DGP to prepare a list of the UG leaders and groups against which the cash reward should be announced as well as the names of the contractors who have nexus with UGs.

The latest move of the State Government comes in the backdrop of the reported instructions from the Ministry of Home Affairs to crack down on all militant outfits operating in the State.

To contain the activities of the militants, the State Government had earlier decided to recruit more police personnel as well as equip them with the needed armoury.

The Cabinet had also decided to deploy police commandos and IRBs in the hill districts, which have met with stiff opposition from hill based civil society organisations as well as student organisations.

Comment