Guwahati: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed its chargesheet in a case regarding the severe violence in Manipur which started more than a year ago.
According to The Wire, the findings of the NIA point to a connection between arms looted in raids on police armouries and those recovered from individuals said to have a hand in organising the violence.
The chargesheet also refers to “weapons training camps” organised by cadres of a proscribed Meitei insurgent group.
The NIA says that all these acts were done “with the intention to carry out violent terror acts against the rival Kuki Zo community members.”
The NIA had arrested Moirangthem Anand Singh eight months ago who is a cadre of the proscribed Meitei insurgent group, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
The NIA has stated in a special court in New Delhi that Singh took part in a “weapons training camp” organised by PLA cadres Oken Singh and Yaiphapa at an ecological park in Imphal during the period of violence in Manipur
It said that “80-90 youths were trained” in this camp “to handle firearms”.
The NIA, which filed this chargesheet on Monday, has even claimed that a forensic study found a link between arms recovered from the accused by the Manipur police last September, to arms looted from the police stations of the valley areas during the violence.
“During the course of the investigation, it was revealed that three out of the 4 arms seized from the accused were looted from various government sources…”, reads the NIA chargesheet.