IMPHAL, May 18: Jewellery shop owners along Wahengbam Leikai shut down their shops and staged a protest against the one year monetary tax reportedly served by the RPF (PLA) today at Wahengbam Leikai.
Speaking to the media, one of the protesting shop keeper said that the jewellery shops had been served a monetary demand by the RPF (PLA) in the form of a one year tax reportedly signed by one Imo, District revenue officer- 2, Finance department RPF a few days back.Saying that the monetary demand was a huge financial burden to the small time traders, the shopkeepers appealed for the demand to be waived.