IMPHAL, Oct 7: Ten agitating tribal students including leaders of the ATSUM and MUTSU are still in police custody as they refused accept the bail offer even as the 36-hour general strike concluded this evening at 6 pm peacefully.
Out of 117 tribal students rounded up by the police for launching an agitation at the Manipur University campus, 10 were further detained by the police while the others were released yesterday evening.
The detained students include Sonthang Haokip, president MUTSU, and former president Gaisingam along with two core committee members, John Pamei and Helmang Touthang, ATSUM president John Pulamte and general secretary Thomas Thysia while others are the executive members of the two tribal students bodies.
They were produced before the duty magistrate this afternoon by the Singjamei police in connection with a case registered against them.
The court ordered bail to all of them but the student leaders refused to accept as a result of which police had to keep them under judicial remand.
They have been lodged at Imphal City police custody after they were transferred from Singjamei police yesterday afternoon. They are likely to be sent to jail, according to police sources.
On the other hand, more than 300 inter state service tourist buses and goods ferrying trucks stranded at Mao gate and around 70 vehicles including 30 buses and goods carrying trucks stranded at Jirighat are reportedly on their way after the end of general strike this evening, according to the police sources.
The 36-hour state-wide general strike which was called jointly by the Manipur University Tribal Students’ Union, MUTSU, and All Tribal Students’ Union Manipur, ATSUM, on reservation issue for the tribal concluded peacefully today.
Though the general strike had no impact at all in most parts of the state, including in the hill districts, academic atmosphere at the Manipur University had been totally paralysed since yesterday.
In the meantime, the tribal students at the MU hostel carried out mass exodus protest by leaving the hostel this morning to mark another protest over the detention of their leaders by the police.
Over 120 tribal students of the MU today left their respective hostel rooms and are camping inside the campus of Tribal Research Institute at Adimjati Chningmeirong at present.
Joseph R Hmar, spokesman of the ATSUM in a press conference held this afternoon at Adimjati complex in Imphal said that the tribal students in the state will intensify their agitation if their demands including revocation of recent interview of guest lecturers of history department in MU and restoration of state reservation policy in the university are not met.
He also demanded unconditional release of their leaders.
Meanwhile, Zaliangrong Union, Manipur, Assam and Nagaland and Siamsunpawlpi Imphal Block (Paite Students’ Welfare Organisation) today expressed solidarity with the agitations launched by the MUTSU and ATSUM.
In separate press statements the students bodies expressed their condemnation of the incidents of brutal assault on students by the police yesterday inside the MU campus and urged the concerned authorities to book the police personnel involved in yesterday’s brutality against the tribal students.
On the other hand, the volunteers of Churachandpur District Students’ Union while showing their solidarity to the cause of the tribal students imposed general strike in the district today.
The volunteers of the students body also burnt the effigies of chief minister O Ibobi Singh and vice-chancellor of Manipur University Prof Ch Amuba at Churachandpur public ground this noon.
Source: http://ifp.co.in/
Out of 117 tribal students rounded up by the police for launching an agitation at the Manipur University campus, 10 were further detained by the police while the others were released yesterday evening.
The detained students include Sonthang Haokip, president MUTSU, and former president Gaisingam along with two core committee members, John Pamei and Helmang Touthang, ATSUM president John Pulamte and general secretary Thomas Thysia while others are the executive members of the two tribal students bodies.
They were produced before the duty magistrate this afternoon by the Singjamei police in connection with a case registered against them.
The court ordered bail to all of them but the student leaders refused to accept as a result of which police had to keep them under judicial remand.
They have been lodged at Imphal City police custody after they were transferred from Singjamei police yesterday afternoon. They are likely to be sent to jail, according to police sources.
On the other hand, more than 300 inter state service tourist buses and goods ferrying trucks stranded at Mao gate and around 70 vehicles including 30 buses and goods carrying trucks stranded at Jirighat are reportedly on their way after the end of general strike this evening, according to the police sources.
The 36-hour state-wide general strike which was called jointly by the Manipur University Tribal Students’ Union, MUTSU, and All Tribal Students’ Union Manipur, ATSUM, on reservation issue for the tribal concluded peacefully today.
Though the general strike had no impact at all in most parts of the state, including in the hill districts, academic atmosphere at the Manipur University had been totally paralysed since yesterday.
In the meantime, the tribal students at the MU hostel carried out mass exodus protest by leaving the hostel this morning to mark another protest over the detention of their leaders by the police.
Over 120 tribal students of the MU today left their respective hostel rooms and are camping inside the campus of Tribal Research Institute at Adimjati Chningmeirong at present.
Joseph R Hmar, spokesman of the ATSUM in a press conference held this afternoon at Adimjati complex in Imphal said that the tribal students in the state will intensify their agitation if their demands including revocation of recent interview of guest lecturers of history department in MU and restoration of state reservation policy in the university are not met.
He also demanded unconditional release of their leaders.
Meanwhile, Zaliangrong Union, Manipur, Assam and Nagaland and Siamsunpawlpi Imphal Block (Paite Students’ Welfare Organisation) today expressed solidarity with the agitations launched by the MUTSU and ATSUM.
In separate press statements the students bodies expressed their condemnation of the incidents of brutal assault on students by the police yesterday inside the MU campus and urged the concerned authorities to book the police personnel involved in yesterday’s brutality against the tribal students.
On the other hand, the volunteers of Churachandpur District Students’ Union while showing their solidarity to the cause of the tribal students imposed general strike in the district today.
The volunteers of the students body also burnt the effigies of chief minister O Ibobi Singh and vice-chancellor of Manipur University Prof Ch Amuba at Churachandpur public ground this noon.
Source: http://ifp.co.in/
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