Watch | ‘SC’s Intervention in Multi-Crore Drug Haul Case Gives Us Hope to Fight Menace in Manipur’

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Description: Imphal-based rights activist Babloo Loithongbam walks us through a murky drug haul case and the courts' response to it.

Imphal-based rights activist Babloo Loithongbam walks us through a murky drug haul case and the courts' response to it.

Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty

Imphal-based rights activist Babloo Loithongbam walks us through a murky drug haul case and the courts' response to it.

watch ‘sc’s intervention in multi crore drug haul case gives us hope to fight menace in manipur’

Noted Imphal-based rights activist Babloo Loithongbam explains why he, along with three other petitioners, had to knock at the Supreme Court’s doors in a drug haul case involving a BJP leader of Manipur.

After several flip flops following his arrest in 2018, L. Zhou was exonerated by a special court and Manipur government refused to appeal against it in spite of civil society pleas to chief minister N.Biren Singh to pursue the case.

Loithongbam and fellow petitioners were thereafter told by Manipur high court that they couldn’t appeal against Zhou’s acquittal; only the state can.

On March 25, the SC sought a reply from the BJP government on its refusal to appeal against Zhou’s acquittal.

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