The Manipur Police Monday arrested senior journalist Laba Yambem, additionally a former member of the Manipur Human Rights Fee, from his residence in Imphal after a girl filed a grievance of legal intimidation in opposition to him.
The complainant alleged that certainly one of Yambem’s shut associates threatened her utilizing a licensed pistol belonging to the journalist. Yambem was booked for try and homicide, and legal intimidation, amongst others, underneath the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
In the meantime, Yambem’s lawyer has alleged that he has not been produced earlier than the Justice of the Peace involved. The lawyer mentioned the police approached the choose in search of permission to provide Yambem through video convention citing the law-and-order state of affairs late on Monday night. Nevertheless, the lawyer objected to the attraction of the police and demanded that Yambem be bodily produced.
“This raises severe considerations in regards to the method during which the investigating authorities are dealing with the matter,” mentioned the daughter of the journalist complaining in regards to the ‘delay’ in Yambem’s manufacturing earlier than the Justice of the Peace.
Notably, Yambem shaped a political celebration referred to as the Good Governance Get together in July. Practically two months after the formation of the celebration, Yambem’s home got here underneath assault from armed miscreants in September.
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