IMPHAL, Nov 1 ? Claiming responsibility over the custodial death of a Kuki couple, the powerful Kuki insurgent outfit, Kuki National Front, has warned that any individual working against the outfit would not be spared but would meet the capital punishment.
While the law enforcing agency personnel and police are trying to find out clues leading to the death of the couple, the KNF in a statement clarified that Thangin Kipgen, 55 and his wife Lhingneikim Kipgen, 45, residing at the Military Colony under the Kangpokpi police station were killed after abduction from their residence.
They were ?awarded? capital punishment for having nexus with the security forces in eliminating important members of the outfit at their residence?s gate on Oct 25 night.
The slain couple had been directly responsible for the death of Obed (Nehkhogin), the outfit claimed, alleging that they (the couple) had identified Obed as a ?sergeant major? of the KNF when the 14 Assam Rifles took Obed to the couple for identification on October 23 after his was arrested.
It also said that the couple had been warned many times earlier to snap ties with the security forces but they refused to obey and therefore they dou had been eliminated. It also further charged that the couple besides, persuading many of the KNF cadres to surrender to the security forces, had also been indirectly involved in the brutal murder of two villagers of S Changoubung village in Senapati district by the security forces.
Thangin was the former principal of Brighter Academy, Senapati. The couple left behind three sons and two daughters. Four of the couple?s children are reported to be staying outside the State.