In the murder of Manipur Police officer Chingtham Anand Kumar, Hemkholal Mate and another accused, Philip Khaikholal Khongsai, were taken into custody yesterday in Moreh.
Imphal/Guwahati: The district treasurer for the BJP has been identified as one of the two individuals detained in connection with the death of a senior police officer in the border town of Moreh, Manipur.
In the murder of Manipur Police officer Chingtham Anand Kumar, Hemkholal Mate and another accused, Philip Khaikholal Khongsai, were taken into custody yesterday in Moreh.
Mate was the treasurer of the Tengnoupal district unit of the BJP. The party has now dissolved Mate’s membership.
On October 31, 2023, Chingtham Anand was shot and killed while supervising construction of a helipad in Moreh, a region under Tengnoupal that borders Myanmar.
Mate serves as the Mate Tribe Union’s finance secretary in addition to being the village chief of K Moulsang.
State BJP vice president N Nimbus Singh declared, “He (Mate) has been expelled from the primary membership of our party after calling an emergency executive committee of the party today.”
“We will also conduct a comprehensive background check of all members and if any member of our party is found involved in criminal activities, we will take disciplinary action,” Nimbus stated.
The two accused were brought to the Moreh judicial magistrate’s office, whereupon he was placed under police detention for nine days, according to a post made by the Manipur Police on X, the old Twitter platform.
Numerous demonstrators had crowded the Moreh police station following Khongsai’s arrest yesterday, demanding the accused’s release. They had claimed that innocent guys had been arrested by police commandos.
Recently, the security forces have been fighting rebels who have taken up residence in several districts of Moreh.
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The border hamlet is always under attack by drug traffickers, militants, looters, and illegal immigrants as well as refugees from Myanmar’s regime.
Ethnic battles between the Meiteis, who live in the valley and the Kukis, who live in the hills, resulted in over 180 deaths and thousands of internal displacements in May 2023.