Manipur students146; stir foiled

Although indefinite curfew was relaxed from 4 am to 9 pm in Imphal and Greater Imphal, prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC were still in force.

Ibobi had even appealed to the students yesterday to call off their proposed plan of handing over the books. Three students8217; organisations 8212; All Manipur Students8217; Union, Manipur Students8217; Federation and Democratic Students8217; Association of Manipur 8212; had called the stir. They were also irked by the 8216;8216;brutal8217;8217; police action against students during the current agitation.

The three students8217; bodies also appealed to students and teachers to pay floral tributes to student leader Pebam Chitaranjan who immolated himself on August 15 to press for removal of the Act.

To add to the tension in the state, legislators who had been asked by agitators to resign from the Assembly by today for having failed to remove the Act, decided not to resign from the house.