Source: The Sangai Express / Newmai News Network
Imphal, February 06 2009:
The National Security Act (NSA) Board has decided to detain 27 (twenty-seven) persons from Manipur including two women on various grounds, informed an official source.
According to the official source, the concerned district magistrates had sent up the list of persons arrested under insurgency or working against the Government to the State Home Department and was discussed by the NSA board.
And the board after having conducted two meetings in the month of January 2009 approved and confirmed the detention of the 27 (twenty-seven) under the NSA, added the source.
These detainees include seven cadres of the Kangleipak Communist PartyMilitary Council (KCP-MC), personnel of the 1st Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB), a local gangster, five cadres each of the People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) and People's Liberation Army (PLA), a cadre of the United Nation's Liberation Front (UNLF) and seven others of various cases.
In the insurgents infested State of Manipur, it is not an uncommon practice to detain UG activists under National Security Act.