"Biren Singh not fit to be the CM" | Manipur | ASP | Thounaojam Brinda | Sujit Nair

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Manipur Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Thounaojam Brinda, received the Chief Minister's Police Medal for Gallantry in 2018 for her efforts in the state's 'war against drugs', has returned her award. This action came after a special court in Imphal acquitted seven individuals who were arrested in a drugs haul case from 2018.

Thounaojam Brinda, who was recognized for her continuous efforts against drug smuggling and sales in the border state, was the first officer from the Narcotics and Affairs of Border Bureau to receive a state gallantry award. However, she decided to return the medal and wrote a letter to Chief Minister N Biren Singh explaining her reasons.

In her letter, Brinda cited the court's observation that the drugs probe was ""unsatisfactory,"" leading to the acquittal of the accused individuals. She expressed moral concern about not fulfilling her duty as per the wishes of the Criminal Justice Delivery System. Therefore, she considered herself undeserving of the honor bestowed upon her and returned the medal to the state Home Department. Brinda suggested that the award be given to a more deserving and loyal police officer.

It's worth noting that Thounaojam Brinda had previously clashed with Chief Minister N Biren Singh when she alleged in a court document that she was under pressure from him to release a 'drug lord' from custody in July.

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00:00 In the last couple of days, we have been talking, covering Manipur and Manipur clashes.

00:05 In fact, we have been covering for last two months, but in the last couple of days,

00:09 we have been doing intensely. Now, a couple of questions that popped up.

00:13 One is, why could not the police control the clashes in Manipur? Were not they capable enough?

00:22 Did not they have weapons? Did not they have manpower? Why were not they capable? Two and a

00:26 half months and still the clashes are on. Two, we wanted to figure out as to, are the

00:34 cookies solely responsible for the poppy cultivation in Manipur? Are they to be blamed?

00:42 Like it has been made to sound? Is that fair? That is point two I wanted to understand.

00:48 The point three I wanted to understand is, where did this weapon come from? Are these

00:55 weapons coming from other countries or neighboring countries? Are these coming from within the

01:01 country? Where are these weapons coming from? These miscreants seem to be having quite

01:05 sophisticated weapons. So, these are three questions that I have been constantly asking

01:10 and I wanted some answers to them. And today I have a very eminent guest. Eminent because

01:20 I have Miss Brinda who was the Assistant Superintendent of Police in Manipur. Miss

01:28 Brinda is a person who actually called foul against the Benin Singh government and I will tell you why.

01:35 Miss Brinda was a person who actually waged war against drugs. In fact, she was offered the

01:42 gallantry medal for this fight of hers by the Chief Minister himself. She waged war against

01:49 drug and incidentally she caught a drug lord whom the Chief Minister, according to her,

01:55 the Chief Minister pressurized her to release. The Chief Minister ensured that this drug lord

02:01 was released from the prison. Brinda gave her gallantry award back. Currently, she has joined

02:10 politics. She works with the Janata Dal United and she is going to be one of the most honest and

02:16 one of the most straightforward officers in Manipur. So, I am going to talk to Brinda,

02:21 try getting answers to all these questions because I am sure she is the most qualified

02:25 to answer all these questions and that is what this interview is all about.

02:29 Let us get right into the interview.

02:31 Namaskar. Miss Brinda, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for joining us.

02:40 And in fact, I am quite honored to have you. Like I told you before the shoot and I tell you on

02:46 record that I am a huge fan of yours. I have been following your work and I really admire

02:51 the kind of work you do, ma'am. So, let us get into the show. As a professional police officer

02:57 and one of the good ones at that, tell me, do you think, if the police wanted,

03:03 could Manipur violence be controlled? Absolutely. It should have been controlled.

03:10 If the police really wanted, if there was command from the Home Minister, then it should have been

03:17 completely controlled. What was the problem? What went wrong is that command and control,

03:23 there was something wrong between the command. The command was even on the Home Department.

03:30 So, we have to find out what went wrong in the command there. What was the command from the Home

03:37 Minister, who happens to be the State Minister of the State, on the State Police with regard to the

03:42 violence that broke out? Where was their so-called intelligence failure? And why did the police

03:50 fail to respond effectively on time when they had ample of opportunities and time

03:56 before things went out of control? Would it be intelligence failure or would it be

04:02 looking the other way? See, there cannot be intelligence failure as claimed by the government

04:07 because violence of this magnitude cannot happen overnight. This could have taken days and weeks

04:18 for its preparation and being a border state, there are multiple intelligence agencies of the state

04:24 in the center of, in Manipur functioning. And the head of the state, the State Minister,

04:32 has been informed of any intelligence, of any untoward incident that might come up from time

04:42 to time. And what's very surprising is that nobody has brought up to the notice of the public till

04:51 now is that on the 3rd of May, when the incident, the day the incident broke out,

04:55 there was this rapid action forces everywhere in Inphal town. That was the day the violence broke

05:04 out in the, in the, by noon and later part of the day, it had escalated. So later on, the minister

05:15 said that there was intelligence failure. So what I noticed on the day was I particularly remember

05:23 what was the scene in Inphal on that particular day was there was rapid action forces everywhere

05:29 in Inphal town because I took my son for his last chemo to the hospital on this day, it was around

05:40 10 o'clock. And then I was surprised to see so many rapid action forces on the road, on the highway,

05:48 on the streets of Inphal. And I wondered, oh, well, what is wrong? What is the situation that

05:56 we are suddenly seeing this central forces down? And then when we come, I came back from the

06:05 hospital that was in the afternoon, then there were many more number of rapid action forces.

06:11 And by evening, things have escalated. And it was all over the news that, you know,

06:18 violence had broken out in Surachanpur. And later on, because of effective response from the government

06:26 of Manipur, things went out of control and it took a community turn and it went bloody.

06:32 And in the latter part, the minister admitted that there was intelligence failure. So, as a police,

06:38 my question is, if there was intelligence failure, then why was there deployment of

06:43 rapid action forces in Inphal on the morning of 3rd of May?

06:48 Another question I want to ask you as a police officer, when an incident like this, where you

06:55 parade it to innocent girls on the streets, an incident like this can go unreported,

07:02 can go without an FIR? Does it ever happen? No, it cannot go. It cannot go. If the law and order

07:09 is in place and the police department is working effectively, then it will never go unreported.

07:15 This is the worst form of crime. It should be reported. And in a violent, it is a serious

07:23 violence and in such violence, women are naturally targeted, women and children,

07:28 and the women are always sexually targeted in all forms of violence, including war.

07:33 So, they couldn't take adequate care to protect the women from being targeted sexually, from being

07:40 abused, and which they refused, which they failed to. And they even did not take obedience of the

07:48 case on time. And we should find out if the government and the chief minister had information

07:54 on this video beforehand, because they are police department functioning quite well and they are

08:03 taking care of the law and order. And this kind of sensitive incidents and reports that have been

08:09 there, which is the purview of the government. So, the fact that the chief minister says,

08:15 I didn't even know about this, that is what he had mentioned. I just came to know about it

08:20 recently. Is there any credence to that statement? If he doesn't know about serious matter,

08:30 as he is not fit to be in the sphere, then he should give it up to somebody else who is more

08:37 fit to be in the sphere and will be able to control things. That is a total lie. He was using

08:44 internet, he was using Facebook, he has access to internet. How can he so blatantly lie to the

08:51 public when the public is suffering so much, when the whole world knows what is taking place here.

08:57 This entire thing about where does this militant, where does this miscreant get their guns and

09:07 weapons from, ma'am? Is it coming internally? Is it being taken internally? Or is it coming from

09:12 some external, some other country? For border communities who are

09:17 warring on each other, they are being armed. For the border communities, weapons are coming in,

09:24 it has been reported in the media also, that weapons have come into Manipur

09:28 clandestinely. It has been there, reported many times. So, weapons are coming from outside,

09:36 from Myanmar, that is automatically from China and weapons that have been looted from the state

09:41 armory. It has to be under the cognizance of the state Home Minister, who happens to be the state

09:46 minister, without his, you know, active consent, patronage, this amount of, this magnitude of

09:56 looting from the state armory could not have taken place. Is it that simple to

10:00 loot from a state armory? I mean, is that how our police functions?

10:06 So, that's the question. The police are armed, police stations are armed, battalions are armed,

10:11 they are guarded, there are sentries over there, and there is still intelligence. And the state

10:16 has already broken out in communal class and people were starved already at that time. And

10:23 the state Home Department should have taken adequate care to protect all its battalions

10:28 and police stations. So, looting state armory so easily is not comprehensible if it is not

10:36 without the approval of the concerned Home Minister. The state had declared war on drugs,

10:42 which is very nice. But the fact is, somewhere down the line, the Kukizho community thought

10:48 that they were targeted. You are one person who won a gallantry award and you are the only person,

10:54 only police officer to win a gallantry award and you have been fighting, waging a war against drugs

10:59 all your career. Tell me ma'am, is it all Kukizho's fault that poppy is cultivated in Manipur?

11:09 See, number one, this so-called war on drugs, these are just claims, I was to show to the world

11:19 that the government of Manipur is doing something. If the head of the government is seriously

11:25 doing its war on drugs, then first thing is something that we have always been forgetting

11:31 to recall, recollect, that he should not have pressured me into letting off an arrested

11:39 agency chairman whom I arrested with lots of drugs and case and he should not have pressured me at

11:46 all. He facilitated the acquittal of the whole arrested lot and there it was already proven that

11:59 this minister is not concerned about the effects of drugs on the society and the state at large.

12:05 So under the table, he is actively protecting and patronizing them. So there was never war on drugs,

12:14 everything is a hoax and this is simply proven by the fact that no kingpin has been arrested

12:22 in any of these cases so far. Who are the kingpins that have been arrested? We have to investigate

12:29 that. We have to do an inquiry on that. And number two, for poppy plantation, it's a huge

12:37 mafia, a mafia in which the government, many politicians, many drug lords, including the

12:49 government of Manipur at many different levels because of its nexus with the militants and the

12:54 suspension of operation. And yes, not all the cookies are responsible for the poppy mafia,

13:04 but majority of them and most importantly, the mummies influx that have been pumped into the

13:13 state of Manipur for the poppy cultivation funded by the drug money are responsible for the poppy

13:22 mafia. Influx is very alarming because we are not blaming the native cookies who have settled here

13:33 in Manipur for a long time. All the communities are taking part in the drug cartel, be it the

13:39 imported drugs or the poppy cartel, all the communities in their respective

13:45 capacities are taking part in it. But in terms of proportion, yes, proportion is very high from

13:54 the poppy community, especially from the influx in terms of labor and in terms of

14:01 control of the areas under poppy cultivation. That is true. And it's nexus with the militants

14:08 which are on suspension of operation, which are all cookies.

14:11 Ma'am, you arrested a kingpin, you arrested a kingpin, you were pressurized to let him off.

14:18 What was that, ma'am? Can you tell us that incident?

14:23 Yes, I arrested a former ADC chairman from the Hill District. The minister ordered,

14:33 in the very next day, the minister ordered me to let him off in exchange for his wife and his son

14:38 because he turned out to be the right-hand man of his second wife, Ollis, who is the elected

14:46 family from Sandel constituency right now. He actively pressured me and he pressured the DGP

14:54 to order me and my SP to remove the starship from the port so that the accused would be let off on

15:00 bail on the completion of the mandatory 180 days of submission of starship,

15:09 filling with the accused will be automatically let off on bail. So, this is what took place.

15:15 So, obviously, blaming the cookies for this wouldn't be viable, isn't it? Because it is

15:21 the ministry. Collectively blaming the cookies is very wrong. Collectively blaming the whole

15:25 cookies is very wrong. Not all the cookies are involved in it, just like all the rest of the

15:30 communities. We all are participating, be it the natives or indigenous or who are coming from

15:36 outside. We are all taking part in the drug mafia in varying capacities, in different proportions.

15:41 Plugging all the cookies together is the theme for War on Drugs, paramount to struggling off

15:50 the responsibility of the thinker of things effectively and dividing people on communal lines,

15:56 and the effect of which will be borne by the present generation and the future generations

16:02 because we are not dealing with the issue effectively and it is serving only the best

16:06 of the few and those in the government who want to perpetuate their government and

16:12 civilize their speech. It is the only purpose we are serving.

16:17 Next, last question to you. Why did you give away your gallantry award? What was the feeling

16:23 inside? What made you hand over such a prestigious award? You were the only person who got it from

16:30 the narcotics section, weren't you? Yeah, because of the case that I cited before,

16:40 the accused were blatantly acquitted. All the trials were blatantly acquitted and the

16:51 minister expressed that he was satisfied with the outcome of the case. So, I felt that

16:57 I was no longer fit to hold that honorable medal that would have made me feel that I was letting

17:07 my state and the people of Manipur down by holding on to that medal anymore because I failed to

17:14 deliver justice to the case that I worked so hard and in which the people of Manipur had so much

17:22 respect. So, eventually I had to return it. I was better without it. I really hope, ma'am,

17:28 your words becomes inspiration for a lot of youngsters who are looking at

17:32 police and administrative services. I hope your words become inspiration for that. Thank you so

17:38 much for talking to me, ma'am. Thank you so much for talking to me. Indeed, a pleasure talking to you.

17:55 Thank you.

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