Amid increasing violence in Manipur, eight companies of Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) have reached the state capital Imphal and will be deployed in sensitive and border areas. An official gave this information on Thursday. These forces reached Imphal on Wednesday.
Just a day before, another batch of 11 companies of CAPF had reached the state. The official said, four companies each of CRPF and Border Security Force (BSF) will be deployed in sensitive and border areas of the state. One of the companies of CRPF belongs to the women’s battalion.
The Center has recently announced that 50 new CAPF companies will be deployed in Manipur. Violence has escalated in the state and last week Congress and BJP offices were vandalized in the hill district of Jiribam.
Security forces foiled an attempt by agitators to storm the ancestral residence of Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Saturday evening. The violence escalated when three women and three children from the Meitei community went missing from a relief camp in Jiribam district on November 11 following an exchange of fire between security forces and suspected Kuki-Jo militants.
10 militants were killed in this encounter. The bodies of these six missing people were recovered in the last few days. Since May last year, more than 220 people have been killed and thousands rendered homeless in ethnic violence between the Meiteis in the Imphal valley and the Kuki-Jo groups living in the surrounding hills.
