Accused in shooting case held
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, March 27 2015 :
Police on Friday claimed to have nabbed the assailant involved in a recent shooting incident wherein two volunteers of ANJUMAN was injured.
Police sources named the accused as one Md Sarif (38) from Haoreibi Makha Leikai.
He was arrested by a Lilong Police team along with a double barrel rifle around 1 pm of March 26 from Lilong Mairen Khun Makha in Thoubal district, they said.
Accused Sarif was later produced before the court of Thoubal District Chief Judicial Magistrate which remanded him to police custody for seven days.
Sarif reportedly shot and injured the two ANJUMAN volunteers with his double barrel rifle when a team from the organization tried to pick him up from his residence on the charge of trafficking contraband drugs on March 24 .