Several working-class women told Scroll that the anger against the Trinamool Congress government’s handling of the case is justified.

A Congress MP has alleged that the state government demolished their homes to punish Muslims for not voting for the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls.

Tribal groups alleged the collusion of Meitei militants and members of the Central Armed Police Forces in the killings.

The residents of Oting village say army personnel tried to hide the killings, and when confronted, opened indiscriminate fire at them.

Despite the scale of violence, the Nellie massacre in Assam has been all but erased from public memory.

The central agency said that the case is related to a conspiracy by Chin-Kuki-Mizo militant groups based in Myanmar and Bangladesh.

District administrations claim they were structurally unsound or ‘illegal constructions’. The chief minister himself has linked demolitions to terror cases.

Six persons have been held for allegedly torching a police station. UAPA has been invoked in another case.

His remarks came amid reports of organisations allegedly threatening Miya Muslims from Upper Assam to leave the administrative division.

While the police questioned one person in connection with the attack on the teenager, no arrests have been made in the matter.

The Assam chief minister recently declared that neither Bengali-origin nor ethnic Assamese Muslims qualify for the scheme. Legislators and experts contest this.

The police said that the assailants were angered by the statement he made against the Meitei Leepun, a radical Meitei organisation.

The party’s pitch to Muslim voters is based on its welfare programmes, caste politics, and, in some cases, fear.

According to the police, the three were killed in cross-firing by another militant group on Wednesday in Cachar district after they had been taken into custody.

The People’s Liberation Army, a Meitei insurgent group, claimed responsibility for an attempted improvised explosive device blast.

An angry Meitei mob ‘forcibly took away’ the Kukis from a check post in Kangpokpi district, said Manipur police. The incident led to a heavy exchange of fire.

The attack on a senior officer allegedly by Arambai Tenggol cadres highlights dilemma of the police in Meitei-majority Imphal valley, say observers.

One of them, a 21-year-old woman, was ‘brutally gang raped’, a police complaint says. The police confirm an FIR has been filed.

Hundreds of women flock to Assam Rifles camps for shelter as they accuse Meitei cops of ransacking homes, assaulting civilians during a search operation.

In relief camps, both Meitei and Kuki voters question whether voting will make a difference to their lives.

Three MLAs were assaulted by the cadres of Arambai Tenggol at the meeting held on January 24. One had to be briefly hospitalised.

The Manipur police chief has formed a committee to investigate allegations of excesses by security forces.

Police commandos in Imphal laid down their arms on Wednesday to protest the attack.

On May 29, CM N Biren Singh had said that around 40 ‘militants’ had been shot dead by security forces, a claim contested by Kuki civil society groups.

The pledge was administered by Arambai Tenggol, a group that Kuki-Zos have accused of being behind several incidents of violence.

A report alleged on Wednesday that a firm co-founded by Sarma’s wife is occupying government land intended for landless persons and institutions.

A 20-year-old man became the main accused after a police station was set on fire to protest against an alleged custodial death. Days later, he died in custody.

The bodies of one woman and a man have bullet injury, the police said.

The Indigenous Tribal Leaders Forum said after the deadline, it will set up a ‘self-government whether the Centre recognises it or not’.

On April 19, the High Court had asked the state government to consider the plea of the Meiteis within four weeks.

Since 2016, this is the third instance of Bengali-origin Muslims being killed during such demolitions.

Himanta Biswa Sarma was criticised for comments aimed at the religious identity of a journalist who asked him questions at a press conference.

In three separate incidents in May, the four women were attacked by gangs who said they were taking revenge for violence against their community.

Violence broke out after people who were evicted from the Burha Chapori Wildlife Sanctuary returned due to flooding in their makeshift settlement.

In almost every case, the police claim that the person was shot as he tried to snatch service weapons or was trying to escape custody.

A new government order asked border police to refer undocumented immigrants who came to India before 2015 to foreigners’ tribunals – only if they are Muslim.

A Congress MP has alleged that the state government demolished their homes to punish Muslims for not voting for the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls.

A new government order asked border police to refer undocumented immigrants who came to India before 2015 to foreigners’ tribunals – only if they are Muslim.

At least 13 people have died in Manipur’s capital.

Two other persons also sustained bullet wounds in the incident, the police said.

The power project on the Siang river threatens to submerge tribal lands. Two activists were detained on July 8, ahead of the Union power minister’s visit.

Doctors, health workers fear the police crackdown on child marriage might result in a setback to maternal health

Chief Minister N Biren Singh urged people to maintain peace and said police teams have been mobilised to catch the culprits.

The Matia transit camp in Lower Assam currently holds 69 ‘foreigners’, along with 300 people arrested as part of the state’s crackdown on child marriage.

Before the mass burial, thousands attended a farewell ceremony in the Tuibong area for those who had died.

Lawyers representing the women and their families say very little progress has been made in the cases.

Experts and residents blamed the construction of flyovers, and the encroachment of wetlands for the floods in Guwahati.

The arrest of the singer, 31-year-old Altaf Hussain, comes amid a campaign to drive out Bengali-origin Muslim workers from Upper Assam.