Manipur: Curfew imposed in Imphal West as mob vandalises homes of MLAs

A curfew was imposed in Manipur’s Imphal West district on Saturday as protests erupted after the bodies of a woman and two children were found floating on the Barak river.

The bodies are suspected to be of three of the six Meitei persons who had been missing from the Jiribam district since November 11.

Internet and mobile data services were also suspended in Imphal West, Imphal East, Bishnupur, Thoubal, Kakching, Kangpokpi and Churachandpur districts for two days as tensions escalated.

This came as a mob stormed and vandalised the home of Bharatiya Janata Party MLA and Manipur chief minister’s son-in-law Rajkumar Imo Singh, an Assam Rifles official told Scroll.

The mob also vandalised the home of Khuraijam Loken, the MLA of Wangoi Constituency.

At Khwairamband market, the main market of Manipur, women vendors held a protest rally against the killing, the police said, PTI reported.

Demonstrations were also taken out in Bishnupur’s Ningthoukhong and Lamlong in Imphal East.

Earlier in the day, Hmar protestors threw stones at security personnel outside the Silchar Medical College and Hospital. The police baton-charged the protestors to bring the situation under control.

The six persons who had gone missing on November 11 were a grandmother, her two daughters and three grandchildren. Meitei groups had alleged that they were abducted by armed Hmar men when...

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