- Thursday, February 27, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
FRESH violence erupted in the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur on Saturday (5) morning resulting in the deaths of three unarmed villagers, including a father-son duo, prompting the state’s chief minister’s son-in-law slammed the central forces alleging a lapse in security.
According to local witnesses and police sources, the murders took place in Manipur’s Bishnupur district after suspected militants raided a village named Ukha Tampak around 2 am and opened fire, NDTV reported. The father and son and the third victim were in adjoining houses where they were killed. They were unarmed villagers guarding their houses in the state which has been witnessing disturbance since May 2 when deadly ethnic clashes started.
The brutal murders caused great concern as the attackers breached the buffer zone, between the hills and valleys that were monitored by central security forces, the report cited the police sources as saying.
Rajkumar Imo Singh, son-in-law of Manipur’s chief minister N Biren Singh and also a member of the state assembly, slammed the central forces, alleging huge security lapses after the killings and sought action against the personnel over their “negligence in duty”.
According to Imo Singh, the militants could enter the village and kill the people despite the presence of a large number of military personnel.
“The so-called paramilitary forces on duty in the village need to be suspended. We have been writing letters and memorandum regularly to the Union Home Minister (Amit Shah) that certain security forces are creating uneasiness between the people and the state,” he was quoted as saying by the NDTV report.
He added that “a few units” of the central forces were creating problems.
Both Singh and his father-in-law chief minister belong to prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party which is also in power in the north-eastern state.
