Husband, spouse arrested over hostage killings that shook Manipur | India Information
3 min learnGuwahatiJul 10, 2026 09:56 PM IST
Police in Manipur stated on Friday that they arrested a pair from Kangpokpi district for his or her alleged involvement within the killing of six Naga males in Could this 12 months.
A joint operation was launched by a staff of Manipur Police, NIA and CRPF to apprehend the accused within the early hours of Friday, “on the premise of credible inputs,” police stated.
The arrested couple had been recognized as Pradip and his spouse Ayingbi, residents of Leilon Vaiphei village in Kangpokpi district.
Later, in a separate assertion, police stated the 2 had been “recognized by witnesses when the kidnapping came about”.
“Efforts are on to arrest the opposite accomplices concerned within the crime,” police stated.
The our bodies of the six Naga males, who had been from a village in Kangpokpi district, had been recovered by safety forces on June 10, almost a month after they had been amongst greater than 20 Nagas kidnapped by Kuki teams on Could 13. Their mutilated our bodies had been recovered from the neighborhood of Leilon Vaiphei, a Kuki-Zo village near their native village.
These arrests had been made almost two months after the abductions and a month after the our bodies had been recovered. The investigation of the killing of the six males has been handed over to the NIA.
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Hostage stand-off
Tensions between Manipur’s Naga and Kuki-Zo communities have been on edge, significantly since Could 13, when three Kuki-Zo church leaders had been killed in an ambush in Kangpokpi district. This was swiftly adopted by the mass abduction of Naga villagers in Kangpokpi district, and by the kidnapping of over two dozen Kuki-Zo villagers in Senapati district. This had resulted in a hostage stand-off between the 2 communities, and whereas each side had launched 14 hostages every, Naga teams had continued to carry 14 Kuki-Zos captive, demanding the discharge of the six Naga males, who Kuki-Zo teams claimed they didn’t have details about. In the end, the Naga teams launched the 14 hostages on June 9, and the our bodies of the six Naga males had been recovered the following day by safety forces.
For the reason that hostage stand-off and after the restoration of their our bodies, Naga teams have maintained a blockade on the motion of products and provides into Kuki-Zo-majority areas, demanding the arrest of these answerable for the killings.
