Manipur police chief Mukesh Singh has warned that those who try to take the law into their hands or fire at security forces will be strictly dealt with.
Addressing a press conference after his first visit to Churachandpur district on Saturday, he said that "around 70 per cent of looted weapons have been recovered".
"Anyone with arms who tries to take laws into their own hands will be dealt with very strictly. We will deal with them as per the law. Those with weapons would be arrested. Those who try to fire at us will be dealt with in self-defence. Proactive operations will continue till the situation is normal," Singh said.
The director general of police (DGP) also said, "A lot of misinformation is spreading on social media. We have a social media monitoring cell which takes action against those spreading false information that can lead to inter-community conflict. We are proactively engaging them and taking down those sites which are anti-social or anti-national." Singh also said he visited Bishnupur and Churachandpur during which he held meetings with police, para-military and army officers.
A police statement on Sunday said the DGP chaired meetings with District Police officers, CAPFs/Assam Rifles, and civil society organisations.
"He appreciated the efforts of all units in maintaining law and order and praised the district police for drug seizures, arrests of armed miscreants, and recovery of illegal weapons", it said.
Unidentified gunmen killed two Kuki people, including a woman, at a village in Kamjong district in Manipur early in the morning on 11 June after violence broke out in Senapati district over the alleged killing of six Nagas taken hostage on May 13.
Officials in the State’s capital, Imphal, confirmed the death of two persons at Kamjong district’s Kuluth village near the India-Myanmar border. At least two others were reported injured.
The Eastern Kuki Chiefs’ Association said the attackers belonged to an armed Naga group. “The attackers mercilessly set fire to seven houses, including the village church, causing extensive destruction to both private property and a sacred place of worship,” it said in a statement.
On the other hand, the Eastern Command Naga Village Guard blamed the attack on an armed Kuki group in conflict with another Kuki extremist group over area domination along the international border. The Naga organisation claimed that one of the Kuki groups was Myanmar-based.