Manipur: The arrested people have been produced before the judicial magistrate and remanded into further police custody, an official statement said.
According to his 10-year-old son, who was the only eyewitness to the crime, three men entered their home while his father and he were working on the porch.
Manipur news: Officials added that two more persons also sustained bullet wounds in the incident, the details of which are still awaited. This attack comes a day after three tribals were gunned down by unidentified men in Kangpokpi district on Tuesday (September 12) morning.
The official said that an ambush took place between Ireng and Karam Vaiphei villages in the Kanggui area leading to the incident.
The warning has come after a Lt Colonel of the army was injured last week during a standoff with a group of people, including Meira Paibis (women vigilantes), who attempted to attack tribals at Molnoi village near Pallel in Tengnoupal district but were stopped by the army and Assam Rifles.
Addressing the General Conference of the Mizo Students' Union (MSU), Mizoram CM Zoramthanga said that Mizoram has provided relief and shelter to those who have fled their homes in trouble-torn Myanmar, Bangladesh, as well as the neighbouring state of Manipur.
An exchange of fire between security forces and armed men was reported from the Pallel area of Manipur's Tengnoupal district since the wee hours of Friday.
Ministers, MLAs, representatives of Mizo People's Convention, Kuki Students' Organisation, Hmar Inpui, Committee on Tribal Unity, Zomi Council Student Organisation and other organisations were present in the meeting with Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga.
India’s response came after a UN expert group flagged the reports of “serious human rights violations and abuses” in Manipur. The UN experts had said they were “appalled" by the reports and images of gender-based violence targeting hundreds of women and girls of all ages.
At least two people were killed after firing between armed miscreants took place in a Manipur village.
Meanwhile, Maheshwar Thounaojam, national secretary of the Republican Party of India (RPI-Athawale) said he will not apologise and he was entitled to free speech in a democratic country like India.
This was the first assembly session after the unprecedented ethnic clashes in which more then 160 people were killed and thousands of people displaced.
Manipur violence: Supreme Court orders that statement of witnesses under 164 CrPC are to be recorded in the presence of local Magistrate in Manipur.
Naga MLAs had also said they would not be attending the session as they felt Naga peace talks were being hindered by the state government. Responding to a media query, Chief Minister N Biren Singh had earlier said that the assembly session would be convened before September 2.
Over 200 people who had fled to Myanmar due to violence in Manipur were repatriated back to the state's relief camp, assisted by Assam Rifles.
A BSF team is likely to be deployed in the Manipur village where three mutilated bodies were found after the fresh round of violence on Friday.
A four-member delegation of the CPM is on a three-day visit to strife-torn Manipur which has witnessed sporadic violence since May 3.
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Taking to X (formerly Twitter), Chief Minister N Biren Singh said that relief and gratitude as 212 fellow Indian citizens (all Meiteis) who sought safety across the Myanmar border post the May 3rd unrest in Moreh town of Manipur, are now safely back on Indian soil.
A four-member CPM delegation led by Sitaram Yechury will visit Manipur today. Yechury said that the situation in the state is "dangerous" and they will do whatever necessary to restore peace.
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