Forty-one Meitei people have reached Assam from Mizoram after an ex-militants’ group asked the community to leave the State following the viral video of two women being paraded naked in Manipur, officials said on Sunday.
Cachar’s Superintendent of Police Numal Mahatta said these people reached Silchar from neighbouring Mizoram on Saturday night and they have been kept at the building of the Lakhipur Development Block in Binnakandi area.
“These are all well-to-do families and they came in their own vehicles. Some are college professors, while some work as senior Government officials. They said that there have been no attacks in Mizoram as of now,” he said. They said that the Mizoram Government was providing all security to them, but they themselves did not want to take any risk and came to Assam for their own safety, he added. Contd on page 2