The Hindu : `Manipur militants misusing WLL facility'

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Monday, Jul 21, 2003

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`Manipur militants misusing WLL facility'

By Our Correspondent

IMPHAL JULY 20. Militants in Manipur were using the wireless in local loop (WLL) telephone service for their activities and the police have been directed to make a physical verification in all the districts of the State, the Additional Director General of Police, Y. Joykumar, said today.

The police have launched a campaign to locate the WLL instruments and check whether undesirable elements were misusing them.

He said that in Thoubal district, two such phone instruments had been used by militants and the police had requested the BSNL to disconnect the connections. A suggestion had also been made to the BSNL to ask the applicants to obtain a no objection certificate from the police. According to BSNL sources, the number of WLL subscribers in the State is 1141.

Mr. Joykumar said most of the subscribers used fictitious names and addresses. Except for Guwahati and Shillong, there is no mobile telephone facility in the rest of the northeast. Though Central Ministers had promised to extend the facility to all the north-eastern States, the Army had been opposing it, saying that militants would misuse it.

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