Amid escalating violence in Manipur, the Central Government has decided to deploy 90 additional companies of security forces to restore peace and maintain law and order in the troubled state.
“Today, we had a security review meeting, and in this meeting, we reviewed the security of all the districts and Imphal city. During the meeting, Army, police, CRPF, BSF, ITBP officials were present. Whatever problems come up, we are all together… We discussed the issues with DCs and SPs of all districts”said Kuldiep Singh, security advisor, Manipur government.
“You have known by now that we are getting approximately 90 companies of extra force deployment, over and above which was the actual deployment here… 198 companies were here and 70 more companies are coming, and a sizeable portion of that has already reached Imphal,” he added.
He also said that communal violence in Manipur in May 2023 claimed the lives of 258 people, including civilians and terrorists, state security adviser Kuldeep Singh said while addressing a press conference on Friday.
Security forces arrested 32 people for vandalising and burning property of ministers and parliamentarians. In addition, authorities recovered nearly 3,000 confiscated weapons as part of efforts to restore order in the violence-torn country.
