A contemporary bout of violence, this time led by college students, broke out within the state capital on Tuesday after images of the our bodies of two youths who went lacking in July went viral on social media.
The Centre has rushed senior IPS officer Rakesh Balwal from Jammu and Kashmir to Manipur amid contemporary violence within the northeastern state.
Balwal, a 2012 batch IPS officer serving as Srinagar senior superintendent of police (SSP), has been transferred to his mum or dad cadre Manipur the place the scenario has been tense for the previous few months. He took cost as Srinagar SSP in late 2021.
“The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the proposal of the Ministry of Home Affairs for premature repatriation of Rakesh Balwal, IPS, from AGMUT cadre to Manipur cadre,” an official order mentioned.
Before taking cost as Srinagar SSP, Balwal was on deputation with the NIA for three-and-half years as superintendent of police and was a member of the staff that investigated the 2019 Pulwama terror assault during which 40 CRPF personnel misplaced their lives.
More than 180 folks have been killed and a number of other hundred injured since ethnic violence broke out in Manipur on May 3, when a ‘Tribal Solidarity March’ was organised within the hill districts to protest in opposition to the bulk Meitei neighborhood’s demand for Scheduled Tribe standing.
A contemporary bout of violence, this time led by college students, broke out within the state capital on Tuesday after images of the our bodies of two youths who went lacking in July went viral on social media.
Violent protests continued until the early hours of Thursday with a mob vandalising the deputy commissioner’s workplace in Imphal West and torching two four-wheelers, officers mentioned.
On Wednesday evening, the protesters clashed with safety personnel in Uripok, Yaiskul, Sagolband and Tera areas, prompting the forces to hearth a number of rounds of tear gasoline shells to management the scenario, they mentioned.
