Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, March 29 2010:
Security forces today dismantled a meira shang at Yurembam Awang Leikai in Imphal west district after dispersing a group of women staging protest there at about 4.30 pm.
Apart from totally dismantling the structure, they also carried away the roofing material (CGI Sheets), a local report said.
The incident occurred while the womenfolk of the locality were staging sit-in protest to register strong protest against the land acquisition move of the government for expansion of the Yurembam Power Sub-station.
The security forces came at the spot in the Bolero brand vehicle of the Chief Manager of the Power Grid Co-operation, Ibopishak and vehicles of his escort.
The escort personnel stopped the vehicles near the protest site and dismantled the structure where womenfolk were staging the protest.
Meanwhile, windshields of an auto-rickshaw were smashed by protestors imposing the NH-53 on the fourth day of the indefinite bandh in protest against the expansion of the Yurembam Power Sub-station.