Srinagar Senior Superintendent of Police Rakesh Balwal, who has expertise in handling terror-related cases, has been "prematurely" repatriated to Manipur cadre where a fresh bout of violence has worsened the already tense situation.
The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, was completely withdrawn in Meghalaya in 2018, Tripura in 2015 and Mizoram in the 1980s.
Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Tuesday said his government will provide a one-time assistance of Rs 1000 to those living in relief camps because of ethnic rioting in the state.
Officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation have been handed over two FIRs -- one filed by police at the Lamphel station and the other filed by the boy's father -- Joshua Hangsing -- at the Kangpokpi police station.
The Army and Assam Rifles were requisitioned in the night, and along with the state police, the forces arrested the violence by the morning, the spokesperson said.
The Army, Assam Rifles, CAPFs and local police have been deployed in vulnerable places.
The Manipur high court has directed the state government to operationalise mobile towers, on a trial basis, in all those district headquarters which have not been affected by ethnic strife.
Tension in the state escalated after militants ambushed Manipur Police and other state forces in the last few days that left three policemen dead and 14 others injured last Thursday.
The bomb (improvised explosive device), planted near the roadside at Yaiskul bus stand here to attack the security personnel, went off at 6.20 am killing one person on the spot and injuring eight others, they said.
The curfew imposed under Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) will be relaxed from 7 am to 10 am, it said.
An Indian Army soldier was injured after armed miscreants resorted to unprovoked firing from Kanto Sabal towards Chingmang village on the intervening night of June 18-19.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has signed an 'agreement of cooperation' with several party members who might be fielded in the upcoming Manipur assembly elections, in a bid to prevent switching of allegiance before the polls.
Curfew was imposed on Saturday night in two districts in Manipur as violence escalated on the first day of an indefinite bandh called to protest alleged molestation of a film actress by a Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak Muivah militant.
A Manipur police havildar has been arrested after illegal drugs worth around Rs three lakh were allegedly found in his possession in Imphal East district, police said on Wednesday.
The injured have been air evacuated to Mantripukhri and search operations are in progress, the Army's SpearCorps headquartered in Dimapur said on Twitter.
'The kind of situation we are seeing...we don't believe that this can happen in a settled democracy like India'
Mobile internet services have been suspended in the state for the next five days.
The agency filed the charge sheet against six people and a report against one child in conflict with the law before a special CBI court in Guwahati, nearly three months Manipur Police made arrests in the case.
No casualty was reported in the medium-intensity explosion in the complex.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,37,12,218, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.19 per cent.
She had reached Delhi from London on March 18 and taken another flight to Kolkata, where she stayed for a few days with fever and a sore throat. From there she took a flight to Imphal via Agartala on March 21, official sources said.
The four, including the wife of the main accused, were taken 'outside the state' by a special flight, Singh said.
At least eight persons have been killed and 18 injured, including two security personnel, in Manipur's Bishnupur and Churachandpur districts following continuous gunbattle between Kukis and Meiteis over the last 72 hours, officials said on Thursday.
In their continued attacks on Congressmen, insurgents on Thursday hurled grenades in the houses of two candidates and several partymen in various areas of poll-bound Manipur, but none was injured.
Unidentified miscreants shot dead seven persons at Mayai Lambi in Imphal West under Mayang Imphal police station on Monday night. Police said in Imphal on Tuesday that the victims' hands were found tied, adding that their identities were yet to be ascertained.
Five police personnel have been placed under suspension in connection with the incident in which a 29-year-old journalist was killed in police firing in Manipur, official sources said on Monday. The sources said a three-member enquiry committee headed by Principal Secretary, Home, Suresh Babu has been constituted to probe Sunday's incident and the panel would submit its report to the government for further action within a week.
'I have been asking whether the chief minister (N Biren Singh) is in charge of the situation in Manipur.' 'Law and order is a state subject and chief minister is a Constitutional authority. Why did he follow the diktat, if at all there is a diktat from the Union government?'
The situation has improved marginally in Tripura and Mizoram in the past 24 hours.
Two persons were killed when a powerful bomb exploded in Imphal West district of Manipur late on Tuesday night, official sources said. A powerful bomb, allegedly planted by unidentified militants, went off at Kamakhya Pemton college campus at Hiyangthang area, 15 km from Imphal.
Curfew was relaxed for 13 hours from 4 am today in Imphal and Greater Imphal areas of Imphal East, Imphal West and parts of Thoubal and Bishenpur districts
Security presence which has been bolstered by flying in more army troops and rapid action force and central police forces was clearly visible at all major areas and roads.
People are protesting against the killing of 30-year-old Th Manorama Devi, allegedly by Assam Rifles personnel.
Altogether 155 candidates are in fray for the polls in 29 Assembly constituencies spread over three valley districts of Imphal East, Imphal West and Bishnupur, official sources said.
Sources said authorities surveyed the land at Kiyamgei Loukol area amid protests by hundreds of farmers and local residents in April 2006.
A powerful bomb suspected to be planted by insurgents exploded early Monday morning in Manipur's Imphal West district, official sources said.
The Manipur high court had Monday revoked his detention and ordered his immediate release.
With no rains for the third consecutive day, the flood situation in Manipur improved marginally as all the major rivers began receding.
The state government, however, relaxed the curfew in Imphal East and West districts for seven hours from 5 am to facilitate common people to purchase essential items, officials said.
Security forces have been diligently working to create buffer zones, such as the one established between Churachandpur and Bishnupur. However, this has proven insufficient to quell the unrest.
The protestors pelted stones at the Singjamei police station on Tuesday night.
