IMPHAL, February 20: Soibam Leikai Awang Meira Paibi Choakhat Thourang Lup and family members of K Nabachandra today staged a sitting protest against the arrest and detention of K Nabachandra s\/o Keithellakpam Mohon Singh of Soibam Leikai, from Dhaka, Bangladesh.<\/p>\n
While talking to media persons K Mohon Singh father of K Nabachandra stated that his family came to learn of the incident through a news item published in a local daily published today.<\/p>\n
Nabachandra was picked up from his residence under Mohammadpur Police Station in Dhaka by a team of Indian Intelligence sleuths and Bangladeshi police in plain clothes on February 11 at around 10 pm, Bangladesh Local Time, on the pretext of having some words with him.<\/p>\n
He further told the media persons that the team assured to release Nabachnadra within three days time.<\/p>\n
However, K Nabachandra remained untraceable even after eight days of his arrest and the information of his whereabouts is still not known.<\/p>\n
Mohon Singh reiterated that the incident was absolutely against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.<\/p>\n
The act of the security personnel also violate the International Declaration on the Protection of all persons from Enforced Disappearance stated Mohon Singh.<\/p>\n
He also said that his family firmly believes that Nabachandra might have been held by the security forces on the charge of waging war against India for the independent of Manipur.<\/p>\n
Nabachandra left home and joined the outfit (UNLF) in 1992 and lives with his wife and two daughters at a place under Mohammad Police Station in Dhaka said K Mohon Singh.<\/p>\n
The families of K Nabachandra and Meira Paibis strongly appealed to the concern authorities to intervene and find out the whereabouts of Nabachandra at the earliest.<\/p>\n
A memorandum was also submitted to the director general of police, Government of Manipur, Superintendant of Police, Imphal East and Officer in Charge, Porompat PS.<\/p>\n\n