Imphal, September 17, 2014: Students in Manipur Wednesday embarked on a class boycott protesting against failure to release members of agitating Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS) including student leaders arrested by police.

Students of Ram Lal Paul Higher Secondary School were first to embark the class boycott stir. Students said that they were boycotting their classes in order to press the government to keep the assurance it had made with the leaders of the student wing of the JCILPS during a talk on September 13 last.

“We are boycotting the classes with the sole demand for release of the JCILPS members,” a student leader said, adding that “We strongly condemn the government for not keeping the assurance it has given.”

Students of other schools and colleges are likely to follow the same suit in the coming days, they hinted, adding the decision to boycott the classes was taken after consultation with leaders of student wing of the JCILPS. Reports said that the students of the higher secondary turned up to schools today as usual. However, they left the class when the teachers were about to take class. They remained outside the class after keeping their books in their respective classroom. They left the school after school hour of the day, the report added.

The class boycott stir of the students came up barely a day after arrested members of the JCILPS including five members of student wing were further remanded to judicial custody till September 29.

The five student leaders were arrested by the Imphal police station on September 12 and were produced before the Imphal West Chief Judicial Magistrate court yesterday under FIR Number 338(9) 2014 of Imphal Police Station under section 147/149/120-B/124-A/15-A/506 of Indian Penal Code and Crill Law A Act.

The five student leaders were produced in the court along with six members of women wing of JCILPS by the Imphal police station. Seven more members of the JCILPS were also remanded to judicial custody after Irilbung police station produced them in the court of Imphal East Chief Judicial Magistrate. Rally procession and sit-in-protest continued today also at various part of the state.

Source: Nagaland Post

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