Confine MLA Brojen in police custody till clues of missing plaques confirmed, Demands Former, Minister, M. Hemanta

Imphal, April 30: Khongjom War Memorial Trust President and Former Minister M. Hemanta has urged the OC of  Khongjom police station to pull up Wangjing Tentha A/C MLA Paonam Brojen and  conduct interrogation regarding the missing case of President inaugurated plaque of the Khongjom War Monument cum Tourist Complex.
In a statement, Khongjom War Memorial Trust President, M. Hemanta  said that an FIR had been lodged with the OC of Khongjom police station regarding the missing case of president inaugurated plagues of the Khongjom War Monument cum Tourist Complex.
The inaugural plague of the Khongjom war went missing after it had fallen from its wood frame just a day after it was unveiled by the President of India Pranab Mukherjee on April 23 during the Khongjom War celebration.
Concerned by the development, a team of the Khongjom War Memorial Trust led by its president and former minister M. Hemanta inspected the site.
Hemanta said that they are yet to find the plagues despite the volunteers of the trust on hectic search to find the where about of the missing plates.
He said not only is the inaugural stone of the recently inaugurated complex missing, but the inaugural plaque of the Martyr Memorial Khongjom War Monument inaugurated by the then President VV Giri on October 21,1972 has also gone missing.
This is a serious issue, and the trust will do everything in its capacity to find the truth, he said.
The Martyr Memorial Khongjom War Monument was replaced by the newly inaugurated Khongjom War Monument cum Tourist Complex.
Reacting to the statement of MLA Paonam Brojen who said that the missing plaques are in safe custody of the concerned state government department, he said, “ we are more suspicious about missing the plaques as the local MLA failed to reveal the exact location of the missing plaques.
As such, police should pull up Wangjing Tenths A/C MLA Paonam Brojen to the police station and conduct interrogation regarding the missing plaques, he demanded.
Missing of the plaques is a humiliation to the president of the country who inaugurated it.
If necessary, the MLA should be confined in police custody until clues of the missing plaques is ascertained, he demanded.
He said that he had asked the OC of Khongjom PS Md Abdul Gaffar on phone to pull up the MLA.
“We will file a case against the police OC under ‘urgency of matter’ and ‘negligence of duty’ if the latter fails to perform his duty properly”, said Hemanta.