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If someone wants to understand why #Manipur is screwed up, read this 👇
'Ramesh Chand Sharma, a naib subedar of Assam Rifles, alleged that many Assam Rifles @official_dgar officers, in their greed to get promotion or fill their pockets, staged fake encounter killings and surrender dramas in the name of counter-insurgency operations. They use surrendered militants to procure unregistered arms and send jawans to carry out the dirty work.
One example:
- On February 3, 2013, Ramesh Chand Sharma was sent to the AR headquarters at Mantripukhri with three others in response to a call from the second-in-command of B Company, Mahavir Singh.
- Here they met Col. Yadav, commandant of 30 Assam Rifles, Adjutant Major P.M. Tekhrwade of 290 Artillery and others. Sharma claimed that Col Yadav handed him Rs 3 lakh and Major Tekhrwade asked him to hand over the amount to a person at the AR main gate. He handed over the amount to "Laichonba, a surrendered UNLF cadre", as instructed.
- Laichonba then told Sharma and his companions to go to 7 Manipur Rifles (MR) camp at Khabeisoi, Pangei, in Imphal East district, where they were joined by five other surrendered militants. The new team was asked to go to 26 sector AR camp at Pallel in Chandel district. Here they met the company commander of 42 AR, B company, Major Brajesh, who handed over two unregistered pistols and a lethod gun to Sharma. He was then asked to take the surrendered cadres back to Khabeisoi MR camp and drop Laichonba at the Mantripukhri AR gate.
- At Mantripukhri, Col Yadav called Ramesh to his office where a photographer photographed the two pistols and lathod gun. Later, Sharma handed over the unmarked weapons to Mahavir Singh who deposited them at the arms kote.
- Sharma alleged that 23 unmarked weapons were kept at the arms kote to be used during surrenders, to plant weapons during fake encounters and for depositing weapons when arresting unarmed cadres.
Another example:
- On May 13, 2013, a girl, Leishangthem Lata Devi, 25, a resident of Imphal East was forced by Assam Rifles personnel to pose as a militant and carry a bag of arms.
- She was jailed. She got bail after a few months.'
Source: telegraphindia.com/north-east/fin…
