A Lok Adalat in West Siang has disposed off 24 cases organized in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate on Saturday. Presided over by CJM Tage Halley, the court took 57cases for hearing out of which 24 criminal compoundable to be disposed off on the spot. The remaining cases could not be disposed due to absent of victim or complainant.
We are deeply concerned about the continuing ethnic violence in Manipur between the Meitei community and the tribal Kuki and Zo communities. We demand an immediate halt to this violence that is causing large scale disruption of lives, livelihoods and properties and unleashing even more terror among people.
The immediate trigger to this violence was an April 2023 Manipur High Court order advising the state government to grant the Meitei community (members of which now have either OBC or in some cases SC status) the status of Scheduled Tribe. Thereby, the Meitei community would have access to land that is currently reserved for tribal communities. Several spates of violence broke...
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