Self-styled commander of terror organisation caught

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, January 12

A team of Special Cell has apprehended a self-styled commander-in-chief of the terrorist organisation, KCP (KangleiPak Communist Party), Khoirom Ranjit, 35, resident of Thobal, Imphal East, Manipur. His two accomplices Inugbam Sanatombi Devi, 26, resident of Yourbung Imphal and Pukhrihongbamibomcha, were also caught.

They are involved in a large number of cases of terror activities like lobbying of grenades, shootouts, killings, planting of bombs, extortion network by intimidating businessmen and politicians. One 9 mm pistol and two hand grenades have been recovered from their possession.

Information was received from the Manipur Police about the presence in the city of Khoirom Ranjit, who is the chief of a banned militant organisation of Manipur.

Sources were deployed and technical surveillance was mounted to apprehend the terrorist. On January 12, intelligence was received that the wanted terrorist is coming to meet his accomplice in Mayur Vihar.

Accordingly, a team was sent to Mayur Vihar to apprehend him. Ranjit along with Sanatombi Devi were spotted there and apprehended. A case under the appropriate sections of law has been registered at Special Cell, Lodhi Colony.

During the interrogation of Ranjit the whereabouts of his third accomplice, who is involved in cases of planting of grenades in hospitals in Imphal, was revealed.

Ranjit disclosed that first he became an OGW (Over Ground Worker) of Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) outfit and was involved in delivering extortion letters, etc.

After his release from jail in 2014, he fell out with the KCP-Nigamba and floated his own cadre. He has since been involved in various terrorist activities like lobbying and firing of grenades, running extortion network, threatening people, businessmen and politicians and killing them for refusing to meet his demands, said Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, DCP Special Cell.