Amid the ongoing violence in Manipur, the state government issued a shoot-at-sight order to restrain the spiralling violence.

The Manipur government has released an order and authorised all District Magistrates, Sub-Divisional Magistrates, and all Executive Magistrates/Special Executive Magistrates to issue shoot-at-sight orders in extreme cases.

The order said the decision has been taken in the view of prevailing law and order situation following the unwanted incidents that occured at the Tribal Solidarity in March 2023. It further said all forms of persuasion, warning, reasonable force, etc. had been exhausted under the provisions of law under CrPC, 1973 and the situation could not be controlled.

The violence in the state broke out on Wednesday in the Torbung area of Churachandpur district after thousands of people turned up at a Tribal Solidarity March called by All Tribal Student Union Manipur to protest against the demand for non-tribal Meiteis for Scheduled Tribe status.

As the violence escalated, the Manipur government imposed a curfew in eight districts— Imphal West, Thoubal, Kakching, Jiribam, Bhisnupur, Kangpokpi, Churachandpur, and Tengnoupal.

Earlier today, boxing champion Mary Kom urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to look into the matter.

Reports said as many as 9,000 people have been rescued by the forces from the violence-hit areas so far. Moreover, around 5,000 people have been moved to safe homes in Churachandpur, and another 2,000 people were evacuated to Imphal Valley, and 2,000 people in the border town of Moreh in the Tenugopal district.

A man in Bihar’s Saran district married the sister of his bride-to be after she threatened to commit suicide if he married her sister.

According to reports, the groom, identified as Rajesh Kumar, a resident of Chhapra, and the woman, Putul were having an affair. However, Kumar was engaged to be wed to Putul’s sister Rinku Kumari in Bihar’s Saran on May 2.

Reports said that as the groom was moving towards the bride’s house accompanied the wedding procession, he received a call from the bride’s sister, Putul Kumari, who threatened to kill herself by jumping off a building if Rajesh Kumar did not her marry her instead of her sister.

Other reports said that the bride and the groom had exchanged the wedding garlands at the mandap (wedding altar) when Putul called Rajesh and the marriage ceremony came to an abrubt halt.

On being questioned by the bride’s family and his own, Rajesh came clean and narrated the twisted love story to shocked guests and relatives. He revealed that Putul and him were in love with each other and wanted to get married. This led to an argument between the bride’s and groom’s families as mayhem ensued at the wedding ceremony leading to the police being called in by some guests at the function who feared something bad might happen.

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Soon, officials from the nearby Manjhi police station arrived and convinced the families to sit down and figure out a solution instead of physically and verbally assaulting each other.

 Rajesh made another revelation as he told the families that he and Putul knew each before he got engaged to her sister Rinku.

He said that Putul would often visit Rajesh in Chhapra, where she had went for her intermediate exam at a college, and the two soon grew close during those meetings and would often talk on the phone for hours.

Rajesh revealed that he and Putul finally professed their love for each other, however, when his marriage to Rinku was fixed, Putul became so disturbed that she would either stop the wedding or commit suicide.

Ultimately, the families decided that it was best for all parties involved that Putul and Rajesh be married and thus came a befitting end to a bizarre yet familiar love story.

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Dreaded gangster, Anil Dujana, was killed in an encounter by the Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh Police on Thursday.

According to reports, Anil Dujana, who is named in over 60 criminal cases and was currently out on bail in a murder case, was gunned down by the UP Police’s STF in Meerut.

Reports said that Dujana, who was notorious for terrorising the public in Noida, Ghaziabad and other areas of the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR), had threatened a witness in the murder case against him, barely days after he got bail in the said case and was released from jail last week.

Several reports quoting sources claimed that Anil Dujana had decided to murder the witness, and upon recieving this intel, the STF of UP Police went to arrest him.

However, the operation turned ugly as the infamous gangster and his men opened fire on the cops, which was returned and a gunfight ensued in which Dujana was slain, they said.

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According to reports, the encounter took place in a small village of UP’s Meerut.

A senior police official said that the cops had recieved inputs that Dujana and his gang were hiding out in the village and had launched an operation to arrest him as they had found out that the gangster had issued a threat to the murder case witness.

The official said that the police did not want to leave anything to chance as it was common for witnesses to be targeted and even killed recenly, especially in such cases.

He further said that Anil Dujana and his gang fired upon the STF personnnel leading to an encounter that resulted in the gangster’s demise.

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has repeatedly said that hardened criminals and gangster will be dealt harshly in the state and no mercy will be shown to them.

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