Congress MLA from Manipur Yamthong Haokip was arrested Friday by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a missing arms case, according to an official statement.
The Special NIA judge on Friday remanded Haokip to judicial custody for 15 days in connection with the case pertaining to theft of 56 pistols and 58 magazines from the Director General (of Police) pool armoury located within the premises of 2nd Manipur Rifles Battalion, Imphal between September 2016 and early 2017.
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The Manipur government had handed over the case to the NIA to conduct a probe.
During the course of the investigation, the NIA’s sleuth recovered one of the 9 mm pistols from Haokip’s Mantripukhri residence during a two-day raid starting from July 30. On the first day of the raid, Haokip was taken to a hospital in Imphal after he complained of chest pain and subsequently shifted to a hospital in New Delhi.
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