CRPF chief G P Singh reviews security situation in Manipur with Assam Rifles

Guwahati: G P Singh, Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force, held a high-level operational review meeting with Lt Gen Vikas Lakhera, Director General of Assam Rifles, in Imphal.

Both Assam Rifles and CRPF are deployed in Manipur, which has been ravaged by ethnic violence. Two battalions of the CRPF’s jungle warfare unit, CoBRA, are deployed in Manipur.

The CRPF stated on X, “Continuing his visit to Manipur, DG @crpfindia G P Singh held a high-level operational review meeting with DG @official_dgar, Lt Gen Vikas Lakhera, in Imphal. Joined by senior leadership from both forces, the deliberations focused on:


Strengthening inter-force synergy and joint operational readiness • Reviewing the prevailing ground security scenario • Charting a cohesive roadmap to sustain peace and public order across the state.”

Recently, the Sinai camp was disarmed and taken over by the CRPF following joint operations conducted by the CRPF’s CoBRA unit, Manipur Police and other security agencies. The operation was carried out in the aftermath of the recent killing of three innocent firewood collectors at Nongshum in Imphal East district. During the operation, only 17 individuals impersonating registered SoO cadres using false identities were found in the camp. The camp was supposed to house about 150 cadres.

The Sinai camp was the designated camp of the Kuki National Army (KNA) and Kuki Liberation Army (KLA), which are under the Suspension of Operations (SoO) agreement. This is the first-ever visit by a sitting Chief Minister to a designated camp under the SoO.

Manipur Home Minister Govindas Konthoujam recently said the Suspension of Operations (SoO) agreement with Kuki militant groups expired in the first week of September and had not been extended, citing public opposition to the continuation of the pact as a possible reason.

He said both the state and central governments were concerned about public sentiment against extending the agreement.

The UPF and the KNO, which are conglomerates of 23 underground outfits, signed an SoO agreement with the government on August 22, 2008, and 2,266 cadres of the militant outfits have been staying in different designated camps in Manipur’s hill regions.

The state's majority Meitei community, however, has been opposing any extension of the SoO agreement with the Kuki militant outfits. The tripartite SoO agreement with Kuki-Zo militant groups was extended last year.

More than 50 people have been killed in ethnic clashes between the two tribal communities in the state since early this year.

At least 306 people have been killed, and 49 remain missing, in the ethnic violence that has gripped Manipur since May 2023, Home Minister Govindas Konthoujam told the state assembly on September 3, 2026.