Guwahati
The police in Manipur’s Kangpokpi district have warned its personnel against attending a meeting organised by a Kuki organisation on April 30.
On April 18, an organisation called Kangchup Area Protection and Development Committee issued a notice addressed to the Kuki village chiefs and Kuki personnel serving in the State police, the Manipur Rifles (MR), and the Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB) to attend the meeting “without fail” if they loved their land.
The committee said it was a unit of the Kuki Inpi, the top social body of the Kuki community, and claimed the meeting was organised at K. Ponlen village after “discussions with Kuki militant groups”.
The notice was signed by the committee’s secretary Minlen Lhuouvum and chairman Sasat Kipgen.
Kangpokpi’s Superintendent of Police issued a counter-notice on April 21, “sternly” warning all personnel of the civil police, MR, and IRB from Kuki villages against attending the meeting by a “fictitious” organisation. It also said any uniformed personnel found attending the meeting would be considered to have “committed gross service misconduct”, entailing strict disciplinary action.
Vehicle theft
Cases of vehicle theft have increased over the past few days in the ethnic conflict-scarred Manipur.
Police officials on Tuesday (April 22, 2025) said 75 stolen four-wheelers and seven two-wheelers were recovered from April 16 to 20 from different parts of the State.
The stolen vehicles were recovered during a special drive against the illegal use of tinted film on the windows of four-wheelers.
The police also arrested four members of the outlawed PREPAK (People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak) from the Imphal East district on the night of April 21. The outfit caters primarily to Meitei aspirations.
Three of them were involved in the abduction of two people from the district. The abducted were later rescued.
Meghalaya catch
The police in Meghalaya’s Ri-Bhoi district arrested Khundongbam Herojit Meitei, the finance secretary of the Manipur-based Kangleipak Communist Party-People’s War Group (KCP-PWG), from a rented house in Ri-Bhoi district’s Byrnihat on April 21.
The district’s Senior Superintendent of Police, Vivekanand Singh Rathore, said a counter-insurgency operation was conducted after a team received intelligence inputs about a leader of a banned terror organisation of Manipur hiding in Meghalaya.
“During interrogation, he admitted to collecting money on behalf of the KCP-PWG. Two mobile phones and incriminating materials were seized from his possession,” he said.
The KCP-PWG leader was hiding in the Assam-Meghalaya border area after escaping the crackdown on militant groups in Manipur. He was arrested twice before over the last eight years – in Manipur for possessing illegal firearms and in Nagaland’s Dimapur in a drug trafficking case.
