Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, August 06 2009:
Protestors who had come out to participate in the torch rally yesterday had reportedly broke the office of AE Transmission Construction Subdivision No 7 located at Wangkhei Tokpam Leikai under Porompat police station and burnt down several documents around 11.30pm and destroyed office properties worth Rs 90 lakh.
AE Waikhom Kumar said, around 200 mobs broke the office and burnt down eight pairs of table-chair outside the office.
Documents of the office including a typing machine, a Badama machine, were burnt down.
Properties worth Rs 90 lakh were destroyed by the mob.
The AE appealed the people not to cause the incident in future.
The mob had also broken the window panes of the Manipur Rural Bank locted few 50 meters away from the electricity office apart from burning down a waiting shed near it.