The Indian Revenue Service (IRS) Association has condemned the killing of an revenue tax officer by a mob in violence-hit Manipur.
In a tweet late on May 5 evening, the IRS Association mentioned Imphal-based Income Tax Department officer Letminthang Haokip was killed after ethnic violence between two communities broke out on May 3.
“IRS Association strongly condemns the dastardly act of violence resulting in the death of Sh. Letminthang Haokip, Tax Assistant in Imphal. No cause or ideology can justify the killing of an innocent public servant on duty. Our thoughts are with his family in this difficult hour,” the affiliation mentioned on its Twitter deal with.
Locals mentioned the younger IRS officer was dragged out of his official condominium and overwhelmed to demise.
The IRS officer’s demise adopted that of Chonkholen Haokip, a CRPF constable of the power’s elite CoBRA unit who was on go away. Officials in Manipur mentioned he was killed on Friday afternoon when some folks dressed in police-like uniforms attacked his village Lhunjang in the Bishnupur district.
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Neither the State police nor the armed forces dealing with legislation and order in the State have mentioned how many individuals have been killed. But the media primarily based out of Imphal, quoting unnamed authorities, mentioned greater than 50 our bodies have been deposited in three main hospitals.
These are the Regional Institution of Medical Sciences, the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences, and the Churachandpur District Hospital.
Among the lifeless was an undersecretary in the Agriculture Department and her son, the stories mentioned.
