{"id":53684,"date":"2013-02-26T21:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T02:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/?p=16054"},"modified":"2013-02-26T21:00:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T02:00:37","slug":"haokip%e2%80%99s-son-nabbed-for-involvement-in-pallel-drug-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2013\/02\/26\/haokip%e2%80%99s-son-nabbed-for-involvement-in-pallel-drug-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Haokip\u2019s son nabbed for involvement in Pallel drug case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IMPHAL, Feb 26 NNN : The arrest of the Army colonel was not the end in drug smuggling by people in high position.<br \/>\nA son of a senior Congress MLA of Manipur has been arrested and huge quantity of drugs has been recovered from the MLA\u2019s private residence by the police.<br \/>\nBased on the information provided by Army Colonel Ajay Choudhury and his five cohorts yesterday after the interrogation, Manipur police swooped down to the MLA\u2019s house late last night and arrested senior Congress MLA TN Haokip\u2019s son identified as one Saikholen Haokip (35) and recovered 4 huge cartons of drugs containing 2316 strips at 10 pm on Monday from the MLA\u2019s private house located at Fifth Avenue, Deulahlane in Imphal.<br \/>\nPolice said psychotropic drugs Pseudoephedrine tablets which include Ketamine hydrochloride injection I.P and Extamine 500 mg.<br \/>\nThree FIR have also been filed ( FIR numbers are 25, 26, 27) under Section 21\/29 of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 against the MLA\u2019s son.<br \/>\nSaikholen Haokip was produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Thoubal district today and remanded him to police custody till March 8.<br \/>\nAll the seven arrested people including Col. Ajay Choudhury will be produced on March 8 at 1 pm before the Special Court of NDB-Lamphel in Imphal.<br \/>\nTN Haokip is a senior Congress MLA from Churachandpur district\u2019s Saikot assembly constituency. He had been a cabinet minister in his past tenures.<br \/>\nIt is worth noting that Army colonel Ajay Choudhury and five others were arrested on Sunday morning when they were transporting a huge consignment of the banned drugs to Myanmar from Imphal which worth Rs 15 crore and Rs 24 crore in the international market.The Defence Ministry yesterday ordered the removal from his post of Manipur Army PRO Lt Col Ajay Kumar Choudhury ho was arrested with drugs worth about Rs 15 crore at Pallel, Thoubal district.<br \/>\nThe Defence Ministry has also sought a report about the incident from the local Army authorities.<br \/>\nAn Army jawan and a senior official of Indigo Airlines were also detained for alleged involvement in the drug trafficking.<br \/>\nThe Defence Ministry said it would hurt the Army\u2019s image if Col Choudhury remained in his post, according to a spokesman.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/haokips-son-nabbed-for-involvement-in-pallel-drug-case\/\">http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/haokips-son-nabbed-for-involvement-in-pallel-drug-case\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMPHAL, Feb 26 NNN : The arrest of the Army colonel was not the end in drug smuggling by people in high position. A son of a senior Congress MLA of Manipur has been arrested and huge quantity of drugs has been recovered from the MLA\u2019s private residence by the police. Based on the information [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[985,4],"tags":[986,988],"class_list":["post-53684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manipur-mail","category-news","tag-manipur-mail-2","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}