Kalasa: Forest officer assaults guard; video goes viral
Kalasa, February 14: An incident of a senior forest officer abusing and assaulting his subordinate for not signing on an unknown file containing fake mahazar documents on regularization of land under Akrama-Sakrama scheme, occurred at the town forest department office here on Thursday.
It is said that forest officer M Veerabhadra of Balehole branch of Kalasa Range of the department assaulted Balehole beat forest guard Keerthan and a video of the incident has gone viral on social media.
A resident of Balehole in Kalasa hobli applied for cultivation deeds of bagair hukum land under 94C. To issue cultivation deed, the forest department was asked for mahazar report. But forest officer Veerabhadra prepared a fake mahazar report on the land and forced forest guard Keerthan to sign the document without showing the report as it required his signature. But Keerthan said that he would not sign file without seeing the report and the documents. Enraged over this, Veerabhadra abused Keerthan with foul language in the office and assaulted him physically, it is said.
Now, the video clip of this incident has gone viral in social media and netizens expressed their anger against the forest officer. It was recorded in the video that the officer was forcing Keerthan to sign the file, while Keerthan declining to sign it. Scenes like pulling the guard, abusing and assaulting him and forcing him to give in writing that he would not sign the file were recorded in the video. Sources said that the incident has reached the higher officers of the department. Though no complaint was lodged against the incident, the higher officers have asked RFO Ravikumar to give a report on the incident, sources said.
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Security forces destroy 23 illegal bunkers, seize 18 IEDs in Manipur
Imphal (PTI): Security forces have destroyed 23 bunkers illegally constructed in Manipur's Ukhrul and seized 18 IEDs in Tengnoupal district in separate operations, a police statement said on Saturday.
The bunkers were destroyed on Thursday in the hill villages of Mongkot Chepu, Shongphel, Mullam, Sirarakhong and Ringue in Litan police station area, it said.
A 12-bore pump action gun, 17 cartridges of different calibres and 111 empty cases of fired bullets were also seized.
At least seven people have been shot dead in different firing incidents and more than 30 houses have been torched since violence broke out between Tangkhul Naga and Kuki communities in Ukhrul district in February this year.
Meanwhile, in a separate operation on Wednesday, security forces seized a cache of arms and explosives in T Bongmol village in Moreh police station area in Tengnoupal district.
Two single-barrel rifles, four 9mm pistols with magazines and 18 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were seized. The explosives were destroyed on the spot, it added.
