Manipur women paraded naked incident: The mobile phone from which Manipur viral video showing women being paraded naked, molested was shot has been recovered and the person who shot the video is arrested, top government sources informed on Thursday.
The viral video is of May 4 after clashes between two ethnic tribes -- Meitei and Kuki had erupted in the state.
Sources further said that the law and order situation is relatively better in Manipur, however, not normal.
Nearly 35,000 security personnel are on the ground, there is no shortage of medicine and daily supplies, prices of food and essential supplies are under control. A large number of government staff are returning to work and schools also resuming, they said.
Meanwhile, in another development to the case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will now probe the viral video case, the Ministry of Home Affairs informed on Thursday.
According to reports, the trials will be conducted in neibhouring state Assam.
Govt working to restore peace in Manipur
Refuting the opposition's claim that Manipur "is burning", a senior government functionary said that no killing has occurred in the state since July 18 and asserted that peace and normalcy will be restored soon through ongoing talks with the two warring communities -- Meiteis and Kukis.
With the opposition INDIA bloc accusing the Centre of inaction, he said Home Minister Amit Shah spent three days, met 41 different groups and visited major sites of violence in Manipur.
He contrasted the BJP-led dispensation's approach with that of the previous governments at the Centre when the northeastern state witnessed at least four major cases of ethnic violence.
The only time a minister replied in Parliament was in August 1993 when the then minister of state for home affairs spoke following the killing of hundreds of people and uprooting of over 350 villages during the Kuki-Naga clashes, he claimed.
Only once a minister, the then Minister of State for Home Rajesh Pilot, had visited the state for three-and-a-half hours, he said and highlighted the hands-on approach of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government on the issue.
The incumbent Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai spent 22 days between May 25 and June 17 in the state, the government functionary said.
Reacting to the opposition's attack on Modi over the issue, he said the prime minister would speak to Shah every day after the violence broke out to formulate the government's approach.
With inputs from PTI
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