Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 26:
Along with setting up a 10-member special team, hunt for the unidentified person who snatched the gold ear-rings from 6-year old Akoijam Mahesh alias Amujao of Patsoi Part-III on March 24 has been started.
Announcing this during a press conference today, secretary of drive committee of AMADA head office Konjengbam Meghachandra informed that AMADA has taken up step after receiving written request from the parents of the boy who suspected that the culprit might be a drug addict.
The search team has been formed during an emergency meeting of the AMADA this morning, he added Meghachandra asserted that the unidentified person not only snatched the ear-rings after taking Mahesh to a secluded paddy field located along Iroisemba Road but also tried to murder the child.
Mahesh was playing along with his friends in the ground of the local LP School when the unidentified person lured him away.
From the information given by the local people who were playing along with Mahesh, the description of the suspect has been worked out and the picture of the same would be distributed among the people as well as pasted on the walls of the offices of all social organisation, clubs and Meira Paibis sheds, Meghachandra said, adding that it would not be a hard task for AMADA to nab the culprit.
Nonetheless, he appealed to all the people and social organisations to extend their co-operation and support in tracking down the culprit.
He also asked the culprit to surrender to AMADA of his own volition and seek public apology.
Meghachandra further informed that the monetary value of the gold ear-rings snatched from Mahesh would be given to his parents from the side of AMADA and the same would be recovered from the culprit once he is caught.
He also appealed to all the goldsmiths to contact AMADA on mobile telephone numbers 943638455, 9856267818, 9856210488, 9856106992 if they suspect any person when they come to sell similar gold earrings to them.
It may be recalled, after the gruesome incident of murdering 5-year old Momocha after snatching his gold ear-rings and neck chain by two drug addicts identified as Jagdish and Goroba at Singjamei Mayeng Leikai in 1987, recently another child identified as Chinglenkhomba of Irom Pukhri Mapal was murdered after snatching gold his ear-rings.
In case of Chinglenkhomba, the culprit was has been awarded capital punishment by the proscribed RPF.