Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 12 2010:
In its ongoing mission to weed out extortion and other related activities of the UG groups and their overground women cadres (OGWs), 4/8 Gorkha Rifles under HQ 73 Mountain Brigade of Red Shield Division has reportedly apprehended two women extortionists of PLA on April 10 .
In a statement issued by PIB Defence Wing, the two arrested women extortionists have been identified as Laisoram Tombi (46) s/o late L Naocha of Imphal West of Nachou ward no.4 and Oinam Pratima alias Abey (42) w/o late Kunjababu Singh of Ningthoukhong ward no.6 .
The troops were assisted by Bishnupur police commandos and Mahila police belonging to Bishnupur PS during the operation.
The PIB Defence Wing statement, however, claimed that extortion letters bearing the letterhead of KCP-MC (Lamyanba Khuman) were recovered from the possession of the two apprehended women.
Apprehension of the two women has shown increasing involvement of women in extortion activities in Manipur and this is a disturbing trend.
While the arrest of these two OGWs has dealt a severe blow to the extortionist design of the UG groups in and around Ningthoukhong, it has also bring to the fore the reliance of UG groups on OGWs by exploiting their apparently clean image in furtherance of their nefarious designs.
This has been evident from the arrest of many OGWs in the recent past.