Unknown miscreants hurled a suspected hand grenade at the residence of the managing director of Salai Holding Private Limited, located at Keishamthong Elangbam Leikai Leirak Macha, Imphal West, on Thursday night and exploded.
Police reported that the incident occurred around 11.30 pm when some unknown miscreants hurled a suspected hand grenade at the residence of Elangbam Brojendro Singh, 49, son of the late E Bhubaneshwor of Keishamthong Elangbam Leikai Leirak Macha, Imphal West.
The bomb exploded, causing partial damage to some floor tiles, the courtyard, and the galvanized roof. However, no casualties were reported during the bomb blast.
A case has been registered at Imphal West police station.
Brojendro is the managing director of Salai Holdings Private Limited, a private financial institute that was shut down in 2020 after its SMART bank, which runs under the financial institute, was found allegedly running a Ponzi or money circulation scheme.
According to the CBI’s first information report (FIR) registered earlier, “Salai Group of Companies, Imphal, registered under The Bombay Money Lenders Act, 1946, were not authorized to collect deposits from investors, but they had been illegally collecting deposits from its investors with a promise to pay 3 per cent interest per month to them, as much as such the same was allegedly an illegal Ponzi scheme/money circulation scheme.”
No claim of responsibility for the bomb attack has been made till the filing of this report.
Meanwhile, local Meira Paibis of the area strongly condemned the bomb attack in the congested residential area as it could have hurt innocent people.
One meira paibi of the area, RK Indira, said those unknown assailants could approach the local club or meira paibi instead of carrying out a bomb attack. Any misunderstandings could be solved at a negotiating table, she said.
She appealed not to repeat similar incidents in the near future.
