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The Centre has fixed different six-months extension, till November 20, 2026, to a Commission of Inquiry to taxable its study connected the probe into the 2023 Manipur unit that claimed much than 260 lives, a authorities notification said.
The three-member panel, present headed by erstwhile Supreme Court justice Balbir Singh Chauhan, was formed connected June 4, 2023, successful the aftermath of the taste unit that broke retired successful the North-eastern State successful May that year.
It was initially headed by erstwhile Gauhati High Court main justness Ajai Lamba, who resigned with effect from February 28. Justice Chauhan took complaint connected March 1.
According to the notification published successful the gazette connected Thursday (May 14, 2026), the Commission shall taxable its study to the Centre "as soon arsenic imaginable but not aboriginal than the 20th November, 2026".
The sheet is probing the series of events and facts relating to the taste unit that broke retired successful the State connected May 3, 2023, aft a "Tribal Solidarity March" was organised successful the elevation districts.
The protestation was held against the Meitei community's request for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status. The ensuing unit claimed much than 260 lives. The unit was preceded by earlier tensions implicit the eviction of Kuki villagers from reserve wood land, starring to a bid of smaller agitations.
The Centre constituted the Commission connected the proposal of the Manipur government, citing the necessity of an enquiry into a substance of nationalist importance. The scope of the enquiry includes ascertaining whether determination were immoderate lapses oregon dereliction of work connected the portion of immoderate of the authorities oregon individuals responsible.
The Commission is besides assessing the adequacy of the administrative measures taken to forestall and woody with the unit and riots. It is looking into the complaints oregon allegations submitted by immoderate idiosyncratic oregon association.
It has been fixed extensions a fig of times to taxable its study since then, connected September 13, 2024, December 3, 2024, May 20, 2025, and December 16, 2025, making the latest bid a 5th one. In its past extension, the Union Home Ministry had fixed the Commission clip till May 20 to taxable its report.
According to the June 4, 2023, notification of the Home Ministry, large-scale unit broke retired successful Manipur connected May 3, 2023, claiming the lives of galore residents of the State, too injuring respective others. People's houses and properties were burnt down arsenic a effect of the arson, rendering galore of them homeless, the notification had said.
