WEB DESK
Imphal
Two persons reportaedly hailing from Assam have been arrested by Manipur Police for allegedly admitted to cannibalising of children in Senapati district.
The accused were detected by the villagers in Saikul after the entire area went on a high alert following the disappearance of some children over the last few days.
On Wednesday , the villagers first thrashed the two men and later handed them over to the police. This is the first instance of outsiders allegedly abducting and eating up children in Manipur.
Preliminary inquiries have revealed that they had so far abducted six children, who were later murdered, according to the police. They confessed having eaten up the dead bodies, an officer said.
Police sources said there were six armed members in the gang hailing from Assam. They had rendered services as hired assassins as well. Four of them have escaped.
However later in the evening Superintendent of Police, Kangpokpi Hemant Pandey said, “There has been no presence of cannibals in Kangpokpi. The two people taken into protective custody by Saikul police yesterday are not cannibals.” He said so far no complaint has been lodged by any person neither has any group come forward with any material in this regard. They were beaten up by locals on suspicions of being child lifters. As of now they are in protective custody and undergoing treatment, added the senior police officer.