Suspected militant killed in Manipur encounter amid intensified safety operations | India Information
2 min learnGuwahatiJun 17, 2026 10:21 PM IST
One particular person has been killed in an alleged encounter in Churachandpur district amidst heightened operations in Manipur, with safety forces stating that the deceased was a “suspected militant.”
In line with an announcement by the Manipur police, the incident had taken place Tuesday.
“Info was acquired right this moment from the Assam Rifles that an encounter occurred on 16 June between Molphei and Songkong villages involving a joint column of the Assam Rifles and the Military in opposition to suspected militants. Throughout this encounter, one suspected militant was killed. One AK-47 rifle, together with magazines, ammunition, explosives, and different incriminating objects, was recovered from the spot,” it acknowledged.
Kuki-Zo teams have recognized the deceased as Lenminsang Haokip, and have claimed that he was a civilian and have raised allegations of this being a “pretend encounter”, which has additionally been raised by the native MLA Letzamang Haokip, a BJP MLA, who has demanded a “judicial and unbiased inquiry into the incident, and stringent motion in opposition to all these discovered accountable,”
An Assam Rifles official reiterated the Manipur police’s assertion.
“There are operations being undertaken which are being achieved in coordination with all safety forces. An investigation can also be in progress,” stated the official.
Following escalated tensions within the state with the flaring up of a battle between the state’s Naga and Kuki-Zo communities, the Manipur Police has acknowledged that mixed safety forces are conducting cordon and search operations in “fringe and weak areas” of Kangpokpi, Churachandpur and Thoubal districts.
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“DGP is personally overseeing operations in areas the place there was a spurt of killings and armed actions between communities in current weeks,” stated a police assertion.
Later, police stated that they recovered eleven 12-bore shotguns, 294 dwell rounds of ammunition for the weapons, 34 empty circumstances of ammunition and 6 bullet proof vests in an space, together with Leilon Vaiphei, Leilon Khunou, L. Munlio and Konsakhul, which has been the center of tensions for a couple of month now. That is the world the place six Naga males had been kidnapped and killed, and the place an alleged gunfight had taken place during which three Kuki-Zo males had been injured Monday.
