March 5: Police float more photos of wanted individuals

EMN
Dimapur, March 16

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he police authorities have issued more images of individuals wanted in connection with the March 5 upheaval in Dimapur when a person accused of rape was lynched by a mob. The authorities issued a press release accompanied by unnamed individuals who the police say were directly involved in the case. The images show youths, including two in apparent uniforms.“Based on concrete and credible evidences which is in the possession of Dimapur police, the individuals featured in the following photographs have been identified as being directly involved in the March 5, 2015 incident at Dimapur. More sets of photographs will be published in subsequent days on the basis of available evidence against each person,” the police stated.
The police said the following course of action is to be taken by “the concerned stakeholders”:
1) The individuals featured in these photographs are advised to present themselves at their respective police stations under whose jurisdiction their localities fall under.
2) If the individuals do not voluntarily turn themselves in, the parents or wards of these individuals are to produce them in the respective police stations.
3) If the above two courses of action are not fulfilled, the student unions/ GBs/ Colony Chairmen under whose jurisdiction these persons live, or under which student body these students are affiliated to, are to produce them in the police stations.
“In case the above course of action is not acted upon, Dimapur police will continue to look out for the featured individuals and detain them as per the law as and when they are tracked down. In case of such an eventuality, the stakeholders mentioned above should not intervene and make any representations/petitions to the police on behalf of the featured individuals,” the police said.
“Failure to surrender may lead to the attachment of the dependent parents’ property and may also call for the declaration of reward against the featured persons and subsequently placing them under the ‘wanted’ list under the relevant provisions of law,” the police stated.