“Anyone coming to drop a weapon will neither be questioned nor will be asked to reveal his identity,” a source said. The label on the box, too, says, “Please drop your snatched weapons here. Feel free to do so.”
The legislator was not available for comments.
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144 weapons surrendered in Manipur after Amit Shah’s appeal
Over 4,000 weapons along with ammunition were looted by mobs at different locations. After appeals from Union home minister Amit Shah and chief minister N Biren Singh, over 900 of these along with thousands of rounds of ammunition have been recovered by the Army and security forces during combing operations. These weapons were found abandoned in jungles and other isolated places.
At least 35 weapons and war-like stores were recovered during joint combing operations by security forces on Thursday.
This move to place the box has come days after the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI), a conglomerate of Imphal Valley-based civil society organisations, rejected home minister Shah’s appeal to surrender weapons looted from the police and resolved not to allow combing operations launched by security forces on Wednesday in search of these weapons. The people’s convention on “Chin-Kuki narco-terrorist aggression in Manipur,” organised by the committee in Imphal on Wednesday, had resolved that the weapons will not be surrendered “until the narco-terrorists and related external aggressors are completely annihilated from the soil of our motherland and peace is restored.”