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Manipur Director General of Police (DGP) Rajiv Singh connected Monday (May 25, 2026) said 5,406 sensitive, convulsive and communal posts person been identified and astir 3,200 taken down since June 2023, a period aft taste unit erupted, portion 187 pages and accounts person been blocked.
He said the enactment was taken successful coordination with the State IT Department and the Centre's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
Speaking astatine a programme successful which 477 constabulary vehicles, including armoured cars and two-wheelers, were flagged disconnected by Chief Minister Y. Khemchand Singh astatine the 1st Manipur Rifles Ground, the DGP said, "Since June 1, 2023, a full of 5,406 sensitive, convulsive and communal posts were identified, and astir 3,200 posts were taken down successful coordination with the State IT section and MeitY. A full of 187 pages and accounts were besides blocked." The DGP said prevention, monitoring and verification of fake quality and misinformation were needed to guarantee nationalist order.
"The societal media outreach of Manipur Police, which clears doubts and issues clarifications, has besides expanded significantly. Its Facebook followers person accrued to 79,000 and X followers to 27,000," the serviceman said.
"When I took complaint arsenic the DGP of Manipur Police successful June 2023, the State was passing done 1 of the astir hard and challenging times successful its past owed to the unit betwixt 2 communities," helium said.
The concern demanded not lone contiguous operational effect but besides semipermanent organization strengthening of the constabulary force. A broad program of modernisation of constabulary was prepared and sent to the State authorities towards the extremity of 2023, the DGP said.
He said connected October 31, 2025, the Ministry of Home Affairs approved an magnitude of ₹196. 61 crore for strengthening security, infrastructure, mobility, forensics, connection systems and besides for astute policing initiatives.
"The Central government's enactment has importantly enhanced the operational capableness of Manipur Police and strengthened our quality to respond efficaciously to emerging information challenges. The vehicles flagged disconnected contiguous volition amended mobility, effect clip and logistical enactment crossed some elevation and vale districts," the DGP said.
Of the recently procured vehicles, 54% volition beryllium sent to the elevation districts and the remaining volition beryllium successful the vale and with method units of the police, helium said. Recognising the value of capableness building, Manipur Police entered into a memorandum of knowing (MoU) with the National Security Guards successful June 2025 for specialised grooming and capableness enhancement, helium said.
"To combat extortion activities, a dedicated integrated anti-extortion compartment was established and to date, much than 1,000 extortionists person been arrested, some successful hills and vale districts," helium said. He said during operations against extortion and anti-social elements, determination person been instances wherever protests person been organised, roads blocked and information forces obstructed from performing their lawful duties.
Such actions are detrimental to nine arsenic extortionists and anti-social elements are obstacles to peace, progress, acquisition and the aboriginal of the youth, the DGP said. "I entreaty to the nationalist to widen maximum practice to information forces," helium said. More than 260 radical person died and thousands person been rendered stateless successful ethnic unit betwixt Imphal Valley-based Meiteis and adjoining hills-based Kukis successful Manipur since May 2023.
