The Manipur High Court on Wednesday issued notices to top bureaucrats and police officers of the Manipur government, the Union Home Secretary, the General Officer Commander in-charge of the Indian Army’s Eastern Command, and an Inspector-General of the Assam Rifles (South) in a contempt petition filed by a Meitei body.
The International Meeteis Forum (IMF) had filed a contempt petition before the Manipur High Court alleging that a mob of “Kuki men and women” coming from Churachandpur had vandalised and razed government structures inside the complex where they intended to bury 35 of their dead despite the presence of the 9th Assam Rifles, the CRPF, and other Central paramilitary forces.
The petitioners said that this had happened as tensions were rising and violence flared up again in the buffer zone between Churachandpur and Bishnupur districts on August 5. The IMF went on to say that this was a violation of the High Court’s 6 a.m. order on August 3, which directed all security forces to ensure status quo on the proposed burial site.
