Manipur Deputy Superintendent of Police (ASP) Thounaojam Brinda.
Imphal (Manipur):
Manipur Deputy Superintendent of Police (ASP) Thounaojam Brinda on Friday returned the chief minister’s gala medal he received for a drug investigation involving the former chairman of the Bharatiya Janata Party ADC and six others people.
He also wrote to Chief Minister N Biren Singh in Imphal, setting out the rationale for a judicial observation that, claiming the drug investigation was “unsatisfactory”, acquitted them of all charges.
He was awarded the Chief Minister’s Police Medal for Gallantry on the occasion of Patriots Day, August 13, 2018, as part of the state government’s “War on Drugs.”
The police officer returned the medal with “full respect for the State Department” and following “the decision taken by the Honorable ND&PS Court, Lamphel, which acquitted former ADC chairman of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Lhukhosei Zou, and six others. people involved in the case where a large quantity of drugs was seized. ” Brinda said that as the investigation and prosecution have been deemed unsatisfactory by the ND&PS Court, she was returning her medal.
“I feel morally inclined not to have fulfilled my duty according to the” wishes “of the country’s Criminal Justice Delivery System. Therefore, for the reason mentioned above, I do not consider myself worthy of the honor that your I has granted me, therefore, I return the same to the state Department of the Interior so that it can be turned over to a more dignified and loyal police officer, “the letter read.
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