Overview
- Police in Imphal East arrested two protesters Tuesday along National Highway-02, including constable Thoudam Gojendro Singh, who officers say burned debris and hurled stones with slingshots at security forces at the Koirengei crossing.
- Security personnel carried out what police called controlled firing near Heirok as a crowd advanced toward a government event, and Village Defence Force member Elangbam Nandbir Singh sustained a gunshot wound that required surgery.
- Kangpokpi district imposed an indefinite curfew from 6 pm Tuesday, with the magistrate citing threats to life and property along key stretches of NH-02.
- The unrest follows the April 7 killing of an infant and a toddler by a rocket-like projectile in Bishnupur, and Meitei groups have kept the children’s bodies in a morgue while demanding an investigation and closing markets during a shutdown.
- Senior officers told ThePrint that some personnel have aligned along ethnic lines since the 2023 violence, a split that complicates neutral policing and could cloud public faith in any inquiry into the children’s deaths.