CBI Director in Manipur, reviewed on going probe of cases of violence, crimes

way2barak, Dec 18 : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director Praveen Sood arrived in Imphal on Monday and held meetings with senior officials over the ongoing probe conducted by the central agency of several cases.

Officials said that Sood arrived in Guwahati on Monday morning and in the afternoon he went to Imphal, where he was received by Manipur Director General of Police Rajiv Singh and other senior officials.

Sources said that the CBI chief reviewed developments made by the Special Investigation Teams (SITs) in the investigation of six cases of violence in Manipur.

The cases include the horrific video of two young women being paraded naked on a road by a mob in Manipur on May 4 and the video had been widely circulated on social media, drawing widespread condemnation and demand for strictest actions.

The state government has handed over several other cases to the CBI and these cases relating to various crimes took place during Manipur violence which broke out on May 3.

On December 9 the CBI filed a chargesheet against nine accused before the Special Judge, CBI Court in Guwahati in an ongoing investigation of a case.

The officials of the CBI and SITs are facing protests by the local organisations as the protesters alleged that the probe is not being done in a balanced manner.

The over seven month long ethnic conflict between non-tribal Meitei and tribal Kuki communities has so far claimed 182 lives and displaced more than 70,000 people of both communities with thousands of people taking shelter in Mizoram besides different districts of Manipur.