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Ajai Lamba, the erstwhile Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court, has resigned arsenic chairperson of the three-member Commission of Inquiry notified by the Union Home Ministry successful 2023 to probe the Manipur taste violence. Former Supreme Court justice Balbir Singh Chauhan, who is heading the judicial enquiry into the unit successful Leh metropolis past September, volition regenerate him. The submission oregon the decision of the judicial study connected Ladakh unit has not been announced yet.
Justice (retd.) Lamba told The Hindu that helium had discontinue a fewer days agone connected “personal grounds”.
Since its enactment connected June 4, 2023, a period aft unit betwixt the Kuki-Zo and Meitei radical erupted successful Manipur, the committee was fixed 4 extensions, the latest connected December 16, 2025. It has received astir 11,000 affidavits.
A authorities root said the committee has segregated the affidavits and has made a database of radical who would depose successful Delhi.
“The information and information of the witnesses volition person to beryllium ensured. The committee volition instrumentality attraction of their travel, enactment and different logistics. As the Kuki-Zo radical bash not privation to spell to Imphal to grounds their statements, arrangements volition person to beryllium made successful Delhi. Similarly, the Meitei radical volition besides beryllium called to Delhi,” said the source.
Government officials and members of the nationalist are expected to statesman signaling the grounds soon.
On Thursday (February 26, 2026), a Ministry notification said, “....consequent upon the acceptance of resignation of Honourable Justice Ajai Lamba, erstwhile Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court from the station of the Chairperson of Commission of Inquiry appointed for the intent of making an enquiry into a definite substance of nationalist importance, namely, incidents of unit successful Manipur, w.e.f. 28.02.2026, the Central Government hereby appoints Honourable Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan, erstwhile Justice successful Supreme Court of India, w.e.f. 01.03.2026, arsenic Chairperson of the said Commission successful workout of the powers conferred by sub-section 3 of conception (3) of the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952 (60 of 1952).”
It added that the presumption of notation and different conditions of the committee shall stay unchanged.
The taste unit successful Manipur has claimed astir 250 lives truthful far. Thousands of properties person been burnt down, and much than 60,000 radical person been displaced. President’s Rule was imposed successful the State connected February 13, 2025, and connected February 4 this year, caller Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh took charge.
The committee is mandated to probe the causes, grade of the unit and riots targeting members of antithetic communities, the series of events and whether determination were immoderate lapses oregon dereliction of work successful this respect connected the portion of immoderate of the liable authorities and individuals.
