Amid the ongoing ethnic conflict in Manipur, a serving Junior Commissioned Officer of the Indian Army, who was on Friday morning abducted from his home in Thoubal district was rescued the same evening after an hours-long search operation launched by security forces in the state, The Hindu has learnt.
A source said that the JCO, Naib Subedar Konsam Kheda Singh, of Thoubal’s Charangpat Mamang Leikai, was on leave and was abducted from his residence in a vehicle some time around 9 am on Friday, adding that the cause of the abduction is not yet known.
Editorial | Law and disorder: On Manipur, its ethnic polarisation and its law and order
