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GUWAHATI: Pictures purportedly showing the bodies of a missing 17-year-old girl and a 20-year-old boy last seen together on a motorbike on July 6 unleashed violence on the streets of Imphal on Tuesday involving students in uniform, leaving 50 of them wounded in clashes with police, reports Prabin Kalita.
The pictures going viral, and the consequent un- rest, prompted the Manipur government to ban all internet services again for five days, barely 72 hours after lifting the country’s second longest mobile data blackout at 143 days. The administration, which only last week had claimed a significant improvement in law and order, also declared all schools shut till Friday.
Focused on stemming wave of misinformation: Manipur
As the protest by higher secondary students appeared to go out of hand, police rained batons and used tear gas to disperse them. It was the first such clash involving students since Manipur plunged into a spiral of arson, rioting, gunfights, and blockades by women activists in May. Protests and rallies by students also took place in Thoubal, Kakching and Bishnupur districts, and at Uripok and Old Lambulane in Imphal West district. The state home department said the government was focused on stemming the wave of misinformation, rumours and other forms of provocation through social media platforms.
The CM’s secretariat said the state government had taken note of purported pictures of Phijam Hemjit and Hijam Linthoingambi emerging almost three months after they were re ported missing by their families. The CBI has been asked to probe the circumstances of their disappearance and identify those who might have murdered them, it said. The two students were last seen in CCTV footage riding a motorbike along Tiddim Road. They were apparently coming from a coaching centre at Keishampat Mutum Leikai, where the girl studied physics.
Hijam’s father had reported to Imphal police station on July 6 that his daugh ter didn’t return home. Two days later, he filed a complaint on the basis of which police registered an FIR against Hemjit, charging him with kidnapping and illegally confining the girl. When their whereabouts remained unknown for over a month, there was a public outcry that led to the government transferring the case to the CBI. Police investigators had found the duo’s mobile phones switched off.
A special 10-member CBI team will head to Manipur on Wednesday to investigate the case. The team, headed by special director Ajay Bhatnagar, will travel by a special flight, sources said. Officials said that joint director Ghanshyam Upadhyay will join the team in Manipur. On Tuesday evening, Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh posted on X: “I have been constantly in touch with Hon’ble Union Home Minister @AmitShah to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.”
The pictures going viral, and the consequent un- rest, prompted the Manipur government to ban all internet services again for five days, barely 72 hours after lifting the country’s second longest mobile data blackout at 143 days. The administration, which only last week had claimed a significant improvement in law and order, also declared all schools shut till Friday.
Focused on stemming wave of misinformation: Manipur
As the protest by higher secondary students appeared to go out of hand, police rained batons and used tear gas to disperse them. It was the first such clash involving students since Manipur plunged into a spiral of arson, rioting, gunfights, and blockades by women activists in May. Protests and rallies by students also took place in Thoubal, Kakching and Bishnupur districts, and at Uripok and Old Lambulane in Imphal West district. The state home department said the government was focused on stemming the wave of misinformation, rumours and other forms of provocation through social media platforms.
The CM’s secretariat said the state government had taken note of purported pictures of Phijam Hemjit and Hijam Linthoingambi emerging almost three months after they were re ported missing by their families. The CBI has been asked to probe the circumstances of their disappearance and identify those who might have murdered them, it said. The two students were last seen in CCTV footage riding a motorbike along Tiddim Road. They were apparently coming from a coaching centre at Keishampat Mutum Leikai, where the girl studied physics.
Hijam’s father had reported to Imphal police station on July 6 that his daugh ter didn’t return home. Two days later, he filed a complaint on the basis of which police registered an FIR against Hemjit, charging him with kidnapping and illegally confining the girl. When their whereabouts remained unknown for over a month, there was a public outcry that led to the government transferring the case to the CBI. Police investigators had found the duo’s mobile phones switched off.
A special 10-member CBI team will head to Manipur on Wednesday to investigate the case. The team, headed by special director Ajay Bhatnagar, will travel by a special flight, sources said. Officials said that joint director Ghanshyam Upadhyay will join the team in Manipur. On Tuesday evening, Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh posted on X: “I have been constantly in touch with Hon’ble Union Home Minister @AmitShah to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.”
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