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INDIA HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2005 Manipur<br />
organisations were widely <strong>report</strong>ed.<br />
Acting upon in<strong>for</strong>mation provided by their<br />
in<strong>for</strong>mers, security <strong>for</strong>ces usually conduct<br />
raids, arrest and detain suspects and<br />
innocents, and torture them.<br />
On 24 March 2004, Manipur State<br />
<strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> Commission sought a<br />
<strong>report</strong> from Manipur Director General of<br />
Police regarding the whereabouts of three<br />
persons arrested by the armed <strong>for</strong>ces. On<br />
24 March 2004 at around 12.30 a.m.,<br />
Konthoujam Ibungoubi Singh, a labourer,<br />
was allegedly picked up from his Haorang<br />
Sabal Mamang Leikai residence in Imphal<br />
by army personnel. Y Tomba was<br />
allegedly picked up from his residence at<br />
Kanto village under Sekmai police station<br />
in Imphal West district on 23 March 2004<br />
at around 11.30 a.m. by the personnel of<br />
the 19th Rajput Rifles stationed at<br />
Leimakhong Headquarters. Suspected<br />
army personnel allegedly picked up K<br />
Sanatomba of Heibong-pokpi Lamkhai<br />
under Lamshang Police Station in Imphal<br />
West district, from his residence on 23<br />
March 2004 at around 5 a.m. No arrest<br />
memo was issued in any of these cases. 52<br />
On 24 March 2004 at around 7 a.m.,<br />
Central Reserve Police Force personnel<br />
stationed at Ithai Dam allegedly picked up<br />
one Oinam Premkumar Singh, son of O<br />
Sanajaoba Singh of Keirenphabi Maning<br />
Leikai under Moirang police station in<br />
Bishenpur district from Wangoo Warukok<br />
Chingya near Ithai Dam. No arrest memo<br />
was issued. The paramilitary <strong>for</strong>ces also<br />
allegedly beat up several members of the<br />
family when they pleaded that Premkumar<br />
160<br />
was innocent. On 25 March 2004, some<br />
inhabitants of Ithai Dam area last saw him<br />
being carried away towards Moirang on<br />
one of the two CRPF vehicles. The family<br />
members approached the Superintendent<br />
of Police (SP) of Bishnupur but the SP<br />
expressed his inability to locate Prem<br />
Kumar. On learning that Premkumar was<br />
being kept inside the CRPF camp at<br />
Loktak Project Complex, his family<br />
members requested the Officer-in-Charge<br />
(OC) of Loktak police station on 27 March<br />
2004 to locate him. The CRPF authorities<br />
<strong>report</strong>edly assured the OC of Loktak<br />
police station that Premkumar would be<br />
handed over to the police very soon.<br />
However, Premkumar was neither handed<br />
over to the police nor released. On 1 April<br />
2004, MSHRC directed Manipur’s DGP to<br />
submit a detailed <strong>report</strong> on the<br />
whereabouts of Oinam Premkumar Singh<br />
on or be<strong>for</strong>e 12 April 2004. 53<br />
On 27 March 2004, Khuuplen<br />
Lhouvum, President of the Kuki Students<br />
Organisation and Lamginlan Changsan,<br />
General Secretary of the KSO, were<br />
allegedly picked up by the Assam Rifles<br />
personnel <strong>for</strong> releasing a press statement<br />
condemning the excesses by the Assam<br />
Rifles on High School Leaving Certificate<br />
examinees at Saparmeina in Senapati<br />
district earlier on the same day. They were<br />
taken to the camp and brutally tortured on<br />
false charges of possessing AK-47 bullets.<br />
Lhouvum was released on 2 April 2004 on<br />
the condition that he should clarify<br />
through the press that no atrocities were<br />
committed by the troops. On the other
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