Category: IMPHAL

Amid the escalating violence in Manipur, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday decided to provide an additional 50 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) to the state government to deal with the prevailing law and order situation, officials said. 

A top Army officer toured some Manipur districts to review the emerging internal security situation in the ethnic violence-hit state and discuss operational preparedness with senior Army and Assam Rifles officials, defence officials said on Thursday.

Amid the escalating violence, the Centre has decided to provide an additional 20 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) to deal with the prevailing law and order situation, an Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) official said.

At least 11 suspected Kuki were gunned down in an encounter with the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Manipur's Jiribam district on Monday after they attacked a camp of the paramilitary force, officials said.

Security forces in Manipur during the past 24 hours arrested six militants belonging to two banned militant outfits and a cadre of Arambai Tenggol, a radical Meitei group, police said on Monday.

Manipur Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya on Saturday asked the Vice-Chancellors and Registrars of Central and state universities to act sincerely for the total implementation of the New Education Policy (NEP)-2020.

A Manipur Police constable in Jiribam district fatally shot his senior colleague, a Sub-Inspector rank police officer, on Saturday after a verbal spat over some issue, officials said.

A powerful live hand grenade was found at the gates of Ghanapriya Women's College, located less than 100 metres from the Raj Bhavan here on Monday, police said.

A senior Wildlife Institute of India (WII) scientist would tag Amur falcons in Manipur’s Tamenglong district with satellite transmitters early next month to analyse the migratory routes of the raptors, forest officials said. 

Assam Rifles and Manipur Police in their continued operation recovered 12 weapons and a large cache of ammunition and war-like stores in the past week in Manipur, officials said on Monday.

Sources said that Ministers and MLAs belonging to the Meitei, Kuki and Naga communities attended the meeting called by the Intelligence Bureau under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

Indian Army, Assam Rifles, Manipur Police and other security forces have been relentlessly carrying out intelligence-based joint operations in both the mountainous and valley regions in Manipur and recovering large cache of arms and ammunition, officials said on Monday.

Amidst the ethnic troubles, at least four people were killed in Dengue and the number of positive cases due to the vector-borne diseases recorded 1,360 in Manipur so far this year, health officials said on Sunday.

After Nagaland and Mizoram, some organisations have also opposed the erection of fencing in the Naga-inhabited areas along the India-Myanmar border part in Manipur.

Various tribal organisations, including the Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM), strongly criticised the N. Biren Singh-led state government for extending the term of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) for another six months with effect from October 1.

A Manipur disaster management official said that the quake was felt in the state's northern Ukhrul district and adjoining Nagaland. The mountainous district also shares a border with Myanmar.

A mob looted a large cache of arms and ammunition from a police station in Manipur’s Ukhrul district soon after a clash between two Naga villages in which three people were killed and 30 others injured, officials said on Thursday.

“They were safely handed over to the Kangpokpi District Police in the presence of Assam Rifles and CRPF officials at Gamgiphai. They were later taken to the Imphal Police Station,” the official said.

At least three persons, including a Manipur Rifles trooper, were killed and 30 others injured in Manipur’s Ukhrul district on Wednesday when residents of two Naga villages clashed and even engaged in a gun battle over a boundary dispute, police said.

The shutdown that began in Manipur’s hill districts including Churachandpur and Kangpokpi districts on Friday over fears of attacks on Kuki-Zo tribals, will continue on Sunday.

Normal life remained affected in a few hill districts in Manipur, including Churachandpur and Kangpokpi, for the second day on Saturday amid the shutdown called by a few tribal organisations, anticipating an attack on Kuki-Zo tribals, officials said.

Amidst criticism from various quarters including opposition parties and tribal organisations, Manipur Police late on Wednesday night said that the reports of infiltration of 900 trained Kuki militants from Myanmar to carry out attacks on Meiteis in the state on September 28, could not be substantiated on the ground.

The Opposition Congress in Manipur on Wednesday filed an FIR against three BJP leaders and a Shiv Sena member over alleged threats made against the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi.

Anticipating an attack on Kuki-Zo tribals in Manipur, various tribal organisations, including the Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum (ITLF), have asked people not to travel outside Kuki-Zo dominated areas between September 26 and 29.

After 11 days of closure, all schools, colleges and technical institutions were reopened across Manipur on Tuesday, even as the security forces continued their intensive combing and search operations in most of the districts.