Yamthang Haokip joined BJP

 

Yamthong Haokip, who joined BJP yesterday, was earlier arrested by NIA during 2018 for his involvement in procuring police pistols illegally and distributing them to different terrorist groups to wage war against the state.

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MISSING pistols, sufficient material and other evidence had been found from Yamthong Haokip's house in Imphal's Mantri Pukhuri area during 2018. The missing 9mm weapon is not the only weapon recovered, the NIA agency found other weapons with and without license. Those included made in USA Beretta Pistol with an expired license, One unlicensed 9mm Made in Italy weapon (Pietro Beretta Gardone), One DBBL gun bearing number 65330/05 having License number L/981(KPI) renewed up to 31 December, 2014 and one SBBL gun without any mark of identification.

Besides this the NIA agency sleuths also found 22 rounds of live ammunition of 0.32 pistol, 15 rounds of live ammunition of 9mm pistol, 04 rounds of live ammunition of 7.62 rifle and 04 rounds of live ammunition of 7.62X39 (AK series).

NIA had attached immovable properties of Yamthong Haokip in a missing arms case. The attached properties included the house of the MLA in Imphal in connection with the case, as this property constituted proceeds of "terrorism as defined in Section 25 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act".

Besides, the NIA also attached four separate plots valued at Rs 1.32 crore which are in Yamthong Haokip's name and his wife Sapam Charubala Devi. 

He was charged under several sections of IPC, UAPA and Arms Act; and currently out on bail on medical ground. Owing to his recent illness, the NIA judge [in Imphal] ordered jail authorities to admit him in a government hospital during 2018.

The NIA has also implicated Ngamthang Haokip, who had joined the BJP which is in power in the state. NIA had recovered cash and letter pads of a Manipuri insurgent group from his premises.

(Source: TOI, Indian Express, HT, The Week, Scroll, India Today, Times Now, Deccan Herald.)