Manipur asks Centre to send more forces to control law and order as agitations continue

In a recent communication to the Union Home Ministry, the Manipur government has requested that more forces be sent to the state to control the law and order situation in the light of the ILP agitation taking place in Manipur.

In a recent communication to the Union Home Ministry, the Manipur government has requested that more forces be sent to the state to control the law and order situation in the light of the ILP agitation taking place in Manipur. The letter, sent by the office of Principal Secretary (Home) Dr J Suresh Babu, says that the ongoing agitation in the state has “communal overtones and tends to polarize the society.’’

“According to intelligence inputs as well as assessment by the state police, this serious law and order problem is not only likely to continue for a long time but will also get intensified. The high degree of communal sensitivity here is well known to the government. Under such a volatile law and order situation, deployment of some specially trained and equipped force like the RAF in the state is highly desirable. Such a force apart from being neutral will be able to handle the situation and conduct surgical crowd control,’’says the communique.

The five-member committee set up by the government to draw a new bill afresh to replace the Migrant Workers Bill introduced in March this year which caused the agitations, was submitted by the Committee to the government on Tuesday.

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The indefinite curfew which had been imposed on Imphal city by the Manipur government from July 8 was lifted by the state government yesterday. The prohibitory orders under section 144 CrPC, that prevents assembling of five or more persons at a place, will continue to be in force in the city. The curfew was imposed after 17-year-old Sapam Robinhood died on July 8 after being hit by a tear gas shell when he took part in a student’s protest to implement the Inner Line Permit on the very same day.

With the lifting of the curfew, schools across the city, which have been shut for the past month, resumed classes.

Even as the curfew was lifted, a large number of agitating students and the student wing activists of the Joint Committee for Inner Line Permit stormed the offices of the New Secretariat in the heart of Imphal to submit their textbooks to Education Minister M Okendro in reaction to schools opening in the city. In the clashes that ensued between the police and the students, at least seven students were injured in a lathi charge.

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