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New Delhi, May 30, 2023, Special Correspondent
New Delhi, May 30: With ethnic tension simmering in Manipur, senior IPS officer Rajiv Singh, currently working as an inspector general with the CRPF, has been sent to the trouble-torn state where he is likely to be appointed in a key post to handle the prevailing security situation.
According to an MHA order, Singh, a 1993-batch IPS officer of the Tripura cadre, has been sent to Manipur on inter-cadre deputation for three years.
The home ministry also directed the CRPF to relieve Singh immediately to enable him to take up his new assignment.
Soon after violence broke out in the state on May 3, the central government appointed former chief of the CRPF Kuldiep Singh as a security adviser to the Manipur government.
The northeastern state has been hit by ethnic conflict for nearly a month. There has been a sudden spurt in clashes and firing between militants and security forces after a relative lull for over a fortnight. The death toll from clashes since ethnic violence began on May 3 has gone up to 80, officials said.
Ethnic violence first broke out in Manipur after a ‘Tribal Solidarity March’ was organised in the hill districts on May 3 to protest the Meitei community’s demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status. The violence was preceded by tension over the eviction of Kuki villagers from reserve forest land, which had led to a series of smaller agitations.
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