Irabanta Abduction Case: After bandh, blockade along Imp-Ukl road on
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN
Imphal, October 11 2012:
As announced earlier, the Joint Action Committee (JAC) which is seeking safe release of Irungbam Irabanta who has been allegedly abducted by NSCN-IM, is set to impose an indefinite economic blockade along Imphal-Ukhrul road from Friday.
Expressing unhappiness over the failure of the State Government to take up necessary steps for securing safe release of Irabanta even after more than four months of his abduction, the JAC has questioned whether the State Government has become a Government running under the diktat of NSCN-IM.
Talking to Newmai News Network this evening, Convenor of the JAC Radhamani said that notwithstanding the statement of state Government which said that some cadres were involved in the kidnapping of Irabanta, it is still hesitant to take prompt action against the outfit.
Radhamani observed that such attitude of the Government has prompted the JAC as well as the public to put a question mark on it.
The JAC had submitted several representations to the Chief Minister and the Home Minister, but they have chosen to remain silent which clearly indicates that the Government does not want to solve it, he lamented.
Radhamani added the 48-hour Imphal-Ukhrul road bandh enforced by the JAC ends Thursday midnight and reiterated that the indefinite economic blockade along the same route that the JAC has proposed earlier will begin from tomorrow as the Government refuses intervention on the serious matter.
Being an outfit under ceasefire with the Central Government, NSCN-IM should not indulge in such kidnapping case, the JAC convenor asserted, and warned that any eventual untoward incident should be owned up by both the state Government and NSCN-IM.
Irabanta, a sand supplier for Maphou Dam construction, was allegedly kidnapped by the NSCN-IM on May 27 last.
Since then his whereabouts is unknown till today.
He is a resident of Nongdam Maning Leikai in Imphal East.