A mob tried to storm the personal residence of Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh at Heingang in Imphal East on Thursday evening, amid simmering anger over the murder of two Meitei students who went missing in July. The photos of their bodies surfaced on social media earlier this week, leading to agitations and demonstrations by students.
A government official said that additional teams of the Rapid Action Force (RAF), the Centre’s anti-riot police, were deployed near the CM’s residence. The crowd was stopped at a distance from the house and dispersed with the use of non-lethal weapons. Mr. Singh was not present in the house when the incident took place.
The Manipur police posted on X (formerly Twitter) that adequate security is in place, adding that “the news of CM’s personal residence being mobbed is false and misleading”.
