IMPHAL, May 14: An emergency meeting of the State Cabinet chaired by the Chief Minister was held on May 14 and reviewed the present law and order situation arising out of killing of two labourers by KRF on May 12 and demise today of one person due to the injuries inflicted by the supporters of the agitation against the KRF killings.
A press release of the CM Secretariat has said that the Cabinet unanimously condemned the burning down of the place of worship and appealed to all not to resort to damaging sacred places like churches, temples and mosques.
The killing of innocent labourers by KRF should not be attributed to entire community as it is done by a militant group. The state government acted swiftly and raided the KRF camp and arrested eight persons suspected to be involved in the killing and they are remanded to police custody.
The Cabinet also decided to take up the issue of violation of ground rules by the groups under SoO agreement with the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.
The State Cabinet has also decided to sanction ex-gratia of Rs. 5 lakhs each to the three persons who have been killed and Rs. 1 lakh to the persons with serious injury and Rs. 20,000/- to persons with minor injury. Cabinet has further appealed to all the Civil Society Organisations of both the communities to make conscious efforts to defuse the tension and bring about mutual understanding to restore normalcy in the state, it said.