Manipur: Additional commandos deployed to strengthen security in violence-hit Jiribam district

Imphal: Security has been strengthened in the ethnic violence-hit Jiribam district with the airlifting of a contingent of commandos of the Manipur police from the Kangla Fort of Imphal on Saturday.

Officials said that a commando contingent of Manipur Police has been airlifted in the Indian Air Force helicopters to Jiribam on Saturday morning from Imphal to assist in the security operations against the militants.

This followed after the tribal militants killed a 60-year-old farmer and torched a police outpost and several houses at different locations in the Jiribam district sharing borders with the Cachar district of Assam.

Rajiv Singh, IPS, the Director General of Police (DGP) of Manipur said that Sub Inspector S. Kishorjit Singh oversees the CDO teams.

He shall be responsible for maintaining discipline, command and control, and efficient functioning of the commando teams under the direct supervision of the Superintendent of Police, Jiribam District, Manipur.

The teams of Commando officers and personnel of Imphal West, Imphal East, Thoubal, Kakching, and Bishnupur have been airlifted and deployed for duty at Jiribam with Immediate effect and until further orders.

The suspected militants burned the houses in the villages of Lamtai Khunou, Dibong Khunou, Nunkhal, and Begra.

Moreover, the militants torched the Jiri police outpost located in the Chotobekra area on the banks of the Barak River at around 12.30 am on Saturday.

For the first time, the outrage of the ethnic violence between the Meities and Kukis reached the border district of Jiribam after the killing of a Meitei farmer by the Kuki militant on June 6.

Then the violence spread but the security measures are being taken to maintain the district’s peace and harmony.