KCP (MC) chief Lanheiba held

IMPHAL, Feb 22 : Hard-core KCP (MC) leader Lanheiba Meitei alias Rajen Singh alias Rajesh Singh has been apprehended by troops of 57 Mountain Division from his house at Aizawl yesterday. According to a PIB (DW) press release, the hard-core militant was arrested in a meticulously planned and well coordinated operation code named “Op Grand Slam II).”Following a tip off provided by 57 Mountain Division, a joint operation was launched by a joint team of 57 Mountain Division, Mizoram Police and Manipur Police. The operation was coordinated by the GOC of 57 Mountain Division himself. On receiving information from their own sources that Lanheiba Meitei was taking shelter in his Aizawl house for quite some time, a joint team of officials of 57 Mountain Division and Manipur Police was dispatched to Aizawl on February 8.Since then the house of Rajen alias Lanheiba was kept under constant surveillance.On February 20, specific information was received about the presence of Lanheiba Meitei in his house. Subsequently a trap was laid and Lanheiba Meitei was apprehended by a joint team of 57 Mountain Division, Manipur Police and Mizoram Police in a swift operation on February 21. On interrogation, the apprehended person confirmed himself to be the S/S C-in-C of the banned outfit KCP (MC).Involved in a number of extortion cases, Rajen Singh was earlier apprehended on two occasions. He has been kept in the custody of Mizoram Police for further interrogation.Arrest of Rajen Singh alias Lanheiba Meitei, S/S C-in-C of KCP (MC) has proved a major blow to the outfit, asserted the release.

City Meitei ‘lands’ at Imphal airport

City Meitei ‘lands’ at Imphal airport.

IMPHAL, Jan 22: The leader of KCP (City Meitei) faction and commander of the Mobile Task Force of the proscribed outfit Brojen alias City Meitei who was arrested by a joint team of Bishnupur Police Commandos, Bangalore City Police and 57 Mountain Division based at Manipur from a rented house in Bangalore on January 19 has been brought to Imphal today.A native of Tentha Khunou Bazar Naorem Leikai in Thoubal district, Naorem Brojen who is also known by his assumed names like City Meitei, James, Hobby (32) s/o Nara was brought to Imphal from Bangalore by a team of Bishnupur police in a special flight this afternoon.Another cadre of the outfit identified as Naorem Romesh (31) s/o Manihar, belonging to the same locality of Brojen and arrested by the joint team in the evening of January 19 from Bangalore was also brought to Imphal in the same flight today.Both of them would be produced before a Court here on January 24.In connection with their arrest, SP of Bishnupur district K Jayanta Singh said that a joint team of Army, Bangalore Police and Bishnupur District Police Commandos had arrested the duo from Bangalore on January 19.Prior to that on January 17, a joint team of Army, Delhi Police (Special Cell) and Bishnupur Police Commandos had arrested four KCP members from Delhi including its self styled general secretary and foreign secretary of KCP identified as Chongtham Manglemjao alias KK Nganba alias Ngouba alias Irabot (56) of Nagamapal Singjubung Leirak, Imphal and president elect of the same proscribed outfit identified as Naorem Amumacha alias Yambung (56) of Kakwa Naorem Leikai.Both KK Nganba and Yambung were in possession of press identity cards issued by Meeyam and Kangleipakki Meira respectively, the SP disclosed, while identifying the other arrested KCP members as Ibomcha (35), younger brother of KK Nganba and Ngariyanbam Ratan (36) of Thangmeiband Lairenhanjaba Leikai, who is an assistant of Nganba.The SP further informed that City Meitei and his two followers were involved in the killing of EE of PWD Nabachandra at his Utlou residence on March 31, 2008 and an FIR case had been registered against them.On top of this, bomb attacks at the residences of Agriculture Minister N Loken at Sangaiprou as well as a Nambol Leimapokpam among other violent attacks have been carried out at the directive of City Meitei, the SP said.Extortion demands, firing and bomb attacks in connection with extortion demands have also been carried out at the behest of City Meitei in different parts of Imphal West, Imphal East and Thoubal district, the SP added.A separate case has also been registered against the four KCP activists arrested from Delhi, he informed.