Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, March 09 2009:
A joint public meeting of villagers around Keibul Lamjao, Moirang Khunou Gram Panchayat and Forest Department of Keibul Lamjao was organized by Keibul Lamjao Social Development Organization (KLSDO) today at Chingmei Keinya Bazar Board Shanglen and discussed the issue of the outbreak of the wild fire at Keibul Lamjao on February 22 last.
Secretary Publicity of KLSDO in a press statement said that the meeting declared the eleven suspects of the wild fire nabbed by the Forest Department as innocent as the statements of the eleven suspects, officials of the forest department and the experts gathered in the meeting could not prove them responsible for the incident.
The body of the meeting said that few rounds of bullet sound heard during the wildfire was most suspicious.