IMPHAL March 10: Three staffs of the Assembly Secretariat were roughed up by police personnel yesterday while delivering official documents. A prayer has been intimated to the Secretary of the Manipur Legislative Assembly Secretariat by the Manipur Legislative assembly Secretariat Employees’ Association (MALASEA).
S Jayanta Singh, Secretary of MALASEA has urged the ongoing Assembly Session to discuss the matter at the house proceedings and to take exemplary action against the police personnel so such incidents do not recur in future.It may be mentioned that three grade IV employees, namely Ngashepam Sanajaoba,Thoudam ibobi and Oinam Joyjit Singh of Dak Section were assigned on official duty to dispatch official documents to the Joint Director,MPSC.
The trio were travelling in an auto rickshaw provided by the Secretariat,on their return journey at around 2 pm yesterday,they were stopped and assaulted by 3/4 police personnel at Khuyathong traffic point even after showing their identity cards and the nature of work. The police severely assaulted one person and was seriously injured.
In addition ,the vehicle was also damaged.In regard to the incident, a meeting was held by the members of the Assembly Secretariat association and urged the matter be addressed by the house to take up punitive action.
