Manipur: Fresh tension in border town Moreh following attempts to encroach upon abandoned houses
Moreh in Manipur following the attempts to encroach abandoned houses.
Additional security forces including the Rapid Action Force (RAF) rushed to the area. Moreh, just 4 km to the west of Myanmar’s largest border town Tamu, saw large-scale violence in July.
The Tengnoupal district administration has also suspended daytime curfew relaxation in the border town until further order.
A senior police officer who does not want to be named told ET, “There are attempts to clear debris and encroach the houses. Security forces prevented those trying to encroach the same.”
Manipur Chief minister N Biren Singh last month said, “ More than 200 to 300 state forces are there in Moreh and more forces we are sending.
State forces can be deployed anywhere in the state and there is no bar in deployment, no one can stop it”.
Recently the movement of the state forces was blocked in Tengnoupal by various groups.
On Tuesday the Manipur government has asked the people not to encroach religious or abandoned houses and warned anybody found violating the same shall be booked under relevant provision of law of the land for the time being in force and shall be liable for contempt of the Supreme Court of India.
In an order the state government stated, “Whereas, the Supreme Court of India passed orders giving directions. The situs of these religious buildings be protected from encroachment and the buildings be protected from damage/ destruction.
The Government of Manipur should ensure the protection of the properties of the displaced persons as we// as the properties which have been destroyed/ burnt in the violence and prevent their encroachment. In case any property has been encroached, the encroachers be directed to forthwith remove their
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