Four PREPAK members nabbed in Ptana

Imphal: A Manipur police team arrested four cadres of People Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak, from the Patna railway station premises on Monday, a police source said.

The source said Bihar police assisted to the the state police team in carrying out the operation and identified the fourmembers of PREPAK as Ningthoujam Shanti Meiti alias Chinglemba, Bobo Meiti alias Maj Khangamba, Birjit and Laishram Jiten Singh.

The arrest of the four cadres of the proscribed group in Patana has alarmed the Bihar police which has sounded alert to district police formations.

Meanwhile quoting the Patana Police sources, the Times of India reported there were reports that outlawed CPI (Maoist), which is active in Bihar, has connections with the Manipur outfit as Maoists, particularly from Jamui and Gaya areas, are sent to Manipur for training in guerrilla warfare.

The four terrorists were produced before the railway magistrate and their transit remand was sought. A senior Bihar police official said Bihar police would also interrogate them to ascertain their links with Maoists, the report said.