On Monday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a key meeting in violence hit Manipur with Chief Minister N Biren Singh along with state ministers, leaders and senior officials to assess the security situation in the state.

The north-eastern state since May 3 has been witnessing clashes between the Meitei and Kuki communities.

As the situation across the state remains critical, Home Minister Shah on Monday, arrived in the state for a four-day visit.

Shah is likely to hold a series of meetings today to further take cognizance of the situation and discuss on plan to bring back normalcy and peace in the state.

The Union Home Minister’s first visit to the state since the clashes broke out is being seen positive towards taking measures ensuring peace in Manipur.

On Wednesday afternoon, Shah is expected to convene a press meet announcing the actions initiated to curb the violence and bring back normalcy in the law and order situation of the state. On Thursday, Shah is expected to return back to Delhi.

The state has been witnessing ethnic clashes since May 3 and has claimed at-least 75 lives till now. On May 3, a clash broke out after a Tribal Solidarity March was organised in Manipur protesting the demand of Meitei community for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status.

Later, the violence was fuelled after some Kuki villagers were evicted from a reserve forest land.

Manipur CM Singh informed that Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel have been deployed in 38 vulnerable areas identified across the state. Singh said the CAPF forces have been deployed in order to prevent any unwanted situation.

On May 28, Singh also said around 40 terrorists were killed by the security forces in defensive operations.

The state on Saturday, also extended the ban on internet services till May 31.

The villagers of Jakhnauli has an unusual visitor last night. The villagers had possibly retired after a long hot Sunday when a helicopter made a precautionary landing following a technical error. Stunned villagers piled out of their homes towards the field where the chopper engines were raising bedlam.

The aircraft was the much vaunted Apache attack helicopter of the Indian Air Force and had landed in a field in Bhind district, Madhya Pradesh around 9 pm. A video uploaded online shows the villagers gathered around the chopper in the field. All IAF personnel in the Apache were safe.

The IAF tweeted that an Apache AH 64 helicopter had made a cautious landing and the craft and crew were secure. Another Apache had been flown in to help the chopper which had to land. The rectification party had arrived at the location, the tweet said.

The Apache AH-64 is said to be the most sophisticated multi-role combat helicopter in the world. The helicopter is a recent entrant into the Indian Air Force stable when India became the 16^th country in the world to deploy it.

Touted as the best attack helicopter in the world, the Apache saw action in Afghanistan and Iraq. In Iraq, it struck out the nodes of the air defence systems ahead of bombing raids by UAF jets. The helicopter has been also a favourite target of opponents with several Apaches being brought down in Iraq during the insurgency following the toppling of the Saddam Hussein regime.

Just over a year after the Shradhha Walkar murder in Mehrauli, Delhi has been shocked by the murder of a 16-year-old girl in the city’s Shahbad Dairy area near Rohini.

Police said the victim was a resident of the JJ Colony in Shahbad. She had been walking down the street to visit a friend when she was accosted by the accused and attacked. Police said the couple had had a quarrel on Saturday and the murder is said to be the after-effect of the quarrel.

The victim had been stabbed and bludgeoned dead by her boyfriend, who has since been arrested from Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh. The murder was caught on CCTV in the densely populated area and bystanders didn’t stop the murder. Reports said she was stabbed several times and the knife got stuck in her abdomen but the man wrenched it out and again stabbed her. The CCTV clip shows the accused slamming a cement slab on the prone girl some five times, picking the slab up each time and throwing it on he over and over again. He then walks away and returns to kick the remains of the now dead minor.

While the murder could have been avoided if anyone passing by had stopped the accused or called the police, the heartlessness of the bystanders brings to mind the December 2016 gangrape when the bus in which the victim was assaulted was driving around South West Delhi. Further, the incidents of couples quarrels’ ending up in murder was also seen in the Shraddha Walkar murder when her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawalla killed her and disposed of her parts over time while the body was kept in a large refrigerator.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal condemned the murder but was quick to point out that law and order was not in his government’s domain and called on Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena to act on ensuring better law and order.

Former AAP MLA Kapil Mishra, who is now in the BJP, called it a shameful incident. He said how many more such murders will be seen. Mishra said the girl was a Hindu and the accused was a Muslim and drew a parallel with the controversial film The Kerala Story and wondered how many such Kerala Stories will happen in each lane of the city. Mishra blamed the judiciary for not hanging Aaftab Poonawalla soon enough. The lack of punishment in the Walkar murder has emboldened criminals, Mishra said.