By : A Staff Reporter 11/14/2007 2:04:55 AM
IMPHAL, Nov 13: The Manipur police on preliminary investigation of an employee picked up on the charge of deducting funds from contractors of state social welfare department has come to know that a militant group was doing the collection of money at an official quarter of an MLA at Babupara.
Police rounded up an employee serving as programme officer in the state social welfare department namely Samjetshabam Angou Singh, 54, of Kangjabi Leirak on November 10 last on the alleged charge of deducting money from the contractors engaged in the construction of Anganwadi centres under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, SSA.
According to a case registered with the Imphal police station, the programme officer of the social welfare department deducted money from the funds released as first instalment for the construction of the building for the Anganwadi centres under the SSA scheme implemented in the state by the state social welfare department.
The officer was summoned at the quarter of the sitting MLA, Borajao Singh at Babupara by the militant group, UNLF and payment and collection of money was done there, the police said in the case.
The quarter of the MLA in question was in the news in the last week October this year when police rounded up a PREPAK cadre from the quarter, located at heavily guarded Babupara area.
Angou has been remanded to police custody at the Imphal police station upto November 17 for further investigation into the matter, a source said.
Mention may be made that the Manipur police has started taking action after the state chief secretary, Jarnail Singh asked to probe and identify the officials, contractors, suppliers who indulge in facilitating such extortions to detain them under the National Security Act on October 31 this year.
In a bid to check fund drives by the militant groups from government departments, the chief secretary asked the state police on October 31 to probe and identify the officials, contractors, suppliers who indulge in facilitating such extortions to detain them under the National Security Act.
This would be the first case taken up by the police against an official of the state government after the issue of the order to probe officials, contractors and suppliers siphoning of funds from the government departments to the underground outfits, the source observed.
Before this also it may be mentioned that on October 29 last the state Cabinet approved penalization of VIPs including MLAs who harbour militants in their official and private quarters.
The decision came in the wake of a series of nabbing of militants from the official quarters of sitting and ex-MLAs. Police have so far rounded up 14 militants from the MLAs and ex-MLAs quarters. Some of them have been detained under NSA.
Babupara VIP colony, which is located behind the chief minister’s bungalow, where official quarters of the MLAs, ex-MLAs and top officials of the state government are concentrated has been under strict vigil by the state police since August this year after police raids yielded as many as 11 militants of different groups from the MLAs and ex-MLAs quarters. In consequent raids three more militants were also rounded up in last week of October from MLAs quarter at the same site.
Source: http://ifp.co.in/FullStory.asp?NewsID=1175 [Imphal Free Press]
IMPHAL, Nov 13: The Manipur police on preliminary investigation of an employee picked up on the charge of deducting funds from contractors of state social welfare department has come to know that a militant group was doing the collection of money at an official quarter of an MLA at Babupara.
Police rounded up an employee serving as programme officer in the state social welfare department namely Samjetshabam Angou Singh, 54, of Kangjabi Leirak on November 10 last on the alleged charge of deducting money from the contractors engaged in the construction of Anganwadi centres under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, SSA.
According to a case registered with the Imphal police station, the programme officer of the social welfare department deducted money from the funds released as first instalment for the construction of the building for the Anganwadi centres under the SSA scheme implemented in the state by the state social welfare department.
The officer was summoned at the quarter of the sitting MLA, Borajao Singh at Babupara by the militant group, UNLF and payment and collection of money was done there, the police said in the case.
The quarter of the MLA in question was in the news in the last week October this year when police rounded up a PREPAK cadre from the quarter, located at heavily guarded Babupara area.
Angou has been remanded to police custody at the Imphal police station upto November 17 for further investigation into the matter, a source said.
Mention may be made that the Manipur police has started taking action after the state chief secretary, Jarnail Singh asked to probe and identify the officials, contractors, suppliers who indulge in facilitating such extortions to detain them under the National Security Act on October 31 this year.
In a bid to check fund drives by the militant groups from government departments, the chief secretary asked the state police on October 31 to probe and identify the officials, contractors, suppliers who indulge in facilitating such extortions to detain them under the National Security Act.
This would be the first case taken up by the police against an official of the state government after the issue of the order to probe officials, contractors and suppliers siphoning of funds from the government departments to the underground outfits, the source observed.
Before this also it may be mentioned that on October 29 last the state Cabinet approved penalization of VIPs including MLAs who harbour militants in their official and private quarters.
The decision came in the wake of a series of nabbing of militants from the official quarters of sitting and ex-MLAs. Police have so far rounded up 14 militants from the MLAs and ex-MLAs quarters. Some of them have been detained under NSA.
Babupara VIP colony, which is located behind the chief minister’s bungalow, where official quarters of the MLAs, ex-MLAs and top officials of the state government are concentrated has been under strict vigil by the state police since August this year after police raids yielded as many as 11 militants of different groups from the MLAs and ex-MLAs quarters. In consequent raids three more militants were also rounded up in last week of October from MLAs quarter at the same site.
Source: http://ifp.co.in/FullStory.asp?NewsID=1175 [Imphal Free Press]
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