2,000 troops, helicopters, drones, sniffer dogs: Army searches for missing Meitei man in Manipur

The army on November 26 issued a statement stating that the person, Laishram Kamal Babu, a resident of Cachar district in neighbouring Assam, was working as a supervisor by a contractor working with the Military Engineering Services at Leimakhong military station in Kangpokpi district.

Guwahati: More than 2,000 army personnel along with helicopters, drones and sniffer dogs have been pressed into service in search of the 56-year-old Meitei man, who had reportedly gone missing from an army camp in Kuki-dominated Kangpokpi district, recently.

Informing this, Manipur Police on Monday night said a massive joint search operation assisted by Indian Army was undertaken soon after the person went missing on November 25.

The army on November 26 issued a statement stating that the person, Laishram Kamal Babu, a resident of Cachar district in neighbouring Assam, was engaged as a work supervisor by a contractor working with Military Engineering Services at Leimakhong military station in Kangpokpi district.

But his family informed that he did not return home after work and a search drive was immediately launched.

As the person remained missing, Joint Action Committee (JAC), a civil society group in Imphal, intensified protest in the Valley, which was already on the boil over the abduction and killing of three women and children allegedly by Kuki insurgents.

Chief Minister N Biren Singh on November 29 asked the rmy to take responsibility for tracing out the person as he had gone missing from the army camp.

Arambai Tenggol members nabbed:

Manipur Police on Monday night said that three armed miscreants and juvenile were arrested, who were trying to commit extortion from public and government officials from Kshetrigao Sabal Leikai in Imphal East district.

They were found to be members of Meitei radical armed group, Arambai Tenggol. Police said that a ghatak rifle, one .32 country made pistol and ammunitions were recovered from them.