Team News Riveting
Imphal, August 18
The Border Security Force (BSF) has lodged a protest with Manipur Governor Anusuiya Uikey over alleged “blockade on movement of troops” by locals in different parts of the state.
The Additional Director General of BSF, Sonali Mishra met the Manipur Governor and apprised about the prevailing security situation in the state. She said that there has been “resistance against security personnel in some areas by local people, mostly by women folks”. “But the central forces are in touch with the local populace and making them aware of the need to create a congenial atmosphere for restoration of peace and normalcy (in Manipur),” she said.
The comment came after many women blocked the movement of security vehicles in Bishnupur district of Manipur on Friday. Sonali Mishra informed that 51 companies of BSF are currently stationed in nine districts of Manipur to assist the administration in maintaining law and order.
She said that maximum deployment of BSF troopers is in Imphal and areas that connect the valley and hills (buffer zones). Strict vigil is being maintained to prevent any untoward incident, the BSF official said.
Advocating the need to deploy a specific force to a specific area, ADG said, the security forces will help to chalk out plans to face any eventuality in the area.
Meanwhile, in a fresh round of violence in ethnic strife-torn Manipur, mutilated bodies of three youths were found following heavy gunfire at Thawai Kuki village in Ukhrul district on Friday. Sounds of heavy gunfire were heard from the village, which falls under Litan police station, early in the morning, they said.
Officials said the bodies of the three youths aged between 24 years and 35 years were found after police carried out a thorough search in the surrounding villages and forest areas.
