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(From The Statesman (India))

And in between Manipur runs to rot Manipur's Congress-led Secular Progressive Front government seems to be losing its grip on law and order. Petty criminals and kidnappers seem to be thriving since Okram Ibobi Singh took over in February last year. Some victims have been lucky - like former Chandel district Deputy Commissioner and a German national who managed to get away unscathed, and, more recently, three others who overpowered their captors. Some have not - like Manoj Sethi, a young Imphal shopowner whose body was retrieved this week from a paddy field 38 days after he had been abducted. With ransom the obvious motive, abduction and extortion have become the fastest growing "industries" in the North-east and justify strong counter measures. But states plead helplessness and cite ...

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