From Our Correspondent
JOWAI: The Court of the First Class Magistrate, Khliehriat Civil Sub-division, on Tuesday remanded former HNLC chief, Julius Dorphang and seven other surrendered HNLC cadres in 14-day judicial custody.
Sources also informed that the court also rejected the bail plea of Dorphang and his associates.
The former HNLC chief and his seven associates were arrested on Thursday last from Khliehriat on the basis of a complaint lodged by Testlang Rymbai, a local coal merchant of Wapungskur, who had accused the former HNLC chief of trespassing into Rymbai’s coal mine at Madan Briwar in jaintia Hills district and assaulting his drivers, besides demanding Rs 50 lakh from him.