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Tension successful the Litan country of Manipur’s Ukhrul territory escalated with arson incidents reported precocious connected Sunday (February 8, 2026) night.
Some villagers belonging to the Kuki-Zo and Naga communities defied prohibitory orders nether Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita to acceptable occurrence to each other’s houses. There were reports of equipped Kuki groups being progressive successful immoderate areas.
“There were immoderate cases of arson astatine night, but the concern is present nether control. The information forces are trying to reconstruct instrumentality and order,” Ukhrul’s District Magistrate Asish Das told The Hindu on Monday (February 9, 2026).
“We person been communicating with the leaders of some groups to benignant the contented retired crossed the table,” helium said.
Mr. Das besides said that Deputy Chief Minister Losii Dikho was scheduled to sojourn the trouble-torn Litan country to assistance reconstruct normalcy.
Trouble successful the Litan area, a Kuki-Zo pouch successful the Tangkhul Naga-dominated Ukhrul district, began aft a Kuki radical allegedly assaulted a Tangkhul connected Saturday (February 7, 2026) night. Litan is midway betwixt Ukhrul, the territory headquarters, and Manipur’s capital, Imphal.
The concern successful the Litan country turned tense connected Sunday (February 8) day erstwhile Naga villagers approached the main of a Kuki colony and asked him to nutrient the culprits earlier them. The territory authorities stepped successful aft radical successful respective Naga villages called for enactment against those who thrashed the Naga man.
In a statement, the Kuki Students’ Organisation (KSO) said that the “incident originated from a insignificant altercation involving a fewer intoxicated individuals from some villages”. It besides said that the substance was being addressed peacefully and customarily done the established authorization of the Litan Sareikhong colony “in consultation with the household of the injured person”.
The Katho Katamnao Long (KKL), a Tangkhul students’ organisation, asked the KSO to retract the statement, arsenic “no specified measurement had been taken to rectify the situation”.
The KKL said Sterling, a Tangkhul youth, was beaten up aft helium switched connected his torch aft proceeding immoderate voices successful the dark. It said the radical of people, who turned retired to beryllium Kukis, bushed him up grievously “on the pretext that the airy fell connected their faces”.
Both organisations, however, person appealed for communal harmony.
Ukhrul and different elevation districts of Manipur witnessed conflicts betwixt the Kukis and Nagas successful the past. The worst signifier was successful the 1990s erstwhile much than 1,000 radical were killed, and implicit 100,000 radical were displaced.
