A day after two teenage boys went missing in Manipur, the police said on Monday that three individuals had been detained from the hill district of Kangpokpi in connection with the incident.
Fresh tension was reported in the valley areas of the State after the two boys, identified as Maibam Avinash, 16, and Ningthoujam Anthony, 19, went missing after they visited the Sekmai area in Imphal West district on Sunday morning to attend a function. Their mobile phones were found in Senapati district, a Naga-dominated area.
The Naga Peoples’ Organisation (NPO) issued a statement that some miscreants intentionally dropped the mobile phones of the two missing Meitei youths in the area to drag the Nagas into the ongoing conflict in the State and cause misunderstandings between different communities.
