Manipur security forces foil recruitment bid by banned PREPAK, arrest two women leaders

Guwahati: Security forces in Manipur have foiled the banned militant outfit People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) bid to recruit youths and arrested two women leaders of the outfit.

A police official said that the security forces arrested two women leaders of PREPAK from Khangabok village in Thoubal district in Manipur valley region on Tuesday night.

The arrested leaders of the PREPAK outfit were identified as Khundrakpam Ningthoujam Roshidiya and Lisham Bidya.


The arrest of the duo follows an investigation in the abduction of three minors on January 4 from Kakching Khunou Ngaikhong Leikai areas under Kakching district. The children who were abducted to serve as recruits for the PREPAK group have since been rescued from Uchiwa Awang Leikai areas of Imphal West district and handed over to their respective parents.


PREPAK is reported to have received weapons and training in exchange for hard cash from the Kachin Independent Army (KIA) of Myanmar. There were reports which indicated that the outfit operated training camps in Bangladesh.

At least 260 people were killed and over a thousand injured in the ethnic violence between the tribal Kuki-Zo and the non-tribal Meitei people since May 3, 2023.

The violence between the non-tribals Meiteis and tribal Kuki-Zo broke out after a tribal solidarity march was organised in the hill districts to protest the Meitei community's demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status.