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A time aft a conjugation of 5 equipped groups threatened punitive enactment against radical who participated successful the precocious concluded Sangai Festival successful Imphal, the Manipur authorities warned individuals and banned organisations of strict enactment if they effort to disrupt bid and intimidate law-abiding citizens.
Underlining that immoderate effort to intimidate oregon endanger the information and information of immoderate national is an enactment against the authorities and its people, the State authorities said that nary individual, radical oregon organisation, proscribed oregon otherwise, has the authorization to contented decrees, enforce punishments oregon restrict the lawful cultural, economic, oregon creator activities successful Manipur.
“Any idiosyncratic oregon organisation, without exception, recovered progressive successful issuing specified threats oregon attempting to disturb the peaceful co-existence shall beryllium prosecuted strictly successful accordance with law,” Chief Secretary Puneet Kumar Goel said successful a connection connected Thursday (December 4, 2025).
The State authorities appealed to the radical to basal agreed against unlawful elements and widen practice towards maintaining peace, harmony and nationalist bid to bring the State backmost to the way of maturation and development.
“The authorities appeals to the wide nationalist to instantly study immoderate lawsuit of threat, extortion, coercion, oregon suspicious enactment to the nearest constabulary station. Prompt punitive enactment volition beryllium taken connected each credible reports against those threatening the lives and properties of people,” Mr. Goel said.
The State authorities had earlier established an anti-extortion compartment nether the Home Department, on with a toll-free fig to study cases. The authorities had assured that the individuality of the informant would beryllium kept confidential.
Public apology sought
On Wednesday (December 3, 2025), the leaders of 5 outlawed organisations demanded a nationalist apology from individuals and organisations for attending the Sangai Festival successful November. They threatened the participants, including taste troupes, with punishment if they failed to apologise earlier December 10.
The banned groups are the Kangleipak Communist Party, the Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup, the People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak, the PREPAK (Progressive), and the Koireng-led United National Liberation Front. These outfits had thrown their value down the internally displaced persons (IDPs), who boycotted the Sangai Festival to protestation the government’s nonaccomplishment to rehabilitate them.
A ample fig of immoderate 62,000 radical displaced by the taste struggle betwixt the Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities that broke retired successful May 2023 enactment successful alleviation camps successful the Imphal Valley. They privation to instrumentality to their archetypal homes successful the Kuki-dominated hills.
More than 260 radical were killed successful the conflict.
The internally displaced persons and the equipped groups said the Manipur authorities nether President’s Rule displayed insensitivity by organising the Sangai Festival erstwhile thousands were surviving successful misery, yet to retrieve from the interaction of the convulsive conflict.
