Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 03 2010:
The Commandant, 2nd Bn Manipur Rifles has clarified that the area from where illegal petrol and diesel were seized by the CAF&PD Minister and his team after the inferno inside the 2nd MR campus yesterday are not within the 2nd MR campus.
The area situated to the western side of the main gate beyond the entrance road of the 2nd MR is supposed to be within the 2nd MR compound but many people have settled in the area with a case pending before the Civil Court.
As such, authorities of the 2nd MR cannot go inside this area, the Commandant said in a press release.
While stating that inhabitants of this area have been indulging in illegal trade on diesel, petrol etc, the Commandant clarified that no filled oil tankers are parked in 2nd MR Bn complex but at 2nd IRB complex, Khuman Lampak.
This particular area should be a free land and no private individuals should be allowed to settle in such areas as its amounts to exposing the 2nd MR to high risks, it added.