Amit Shah reviews security situation in Manipur

New Delhi, Jul 5
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday (July 4, 2026) reviewed the security situation in Manipur with senior State Government officials in Delhi, while Chief Minister Y Khemchand Singh joined virtually from Imphal.
Other than Manipur Government’s Security Adviser Kuldiep, State Director-General of Police Mukesh Singh, Director-General of Military Operations (DGMO) Abhijit S Pendharkar and DGs of the Assam Rifles, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), the Border Security Force (BSF), and other senior officers attended the meeting and gave detailed presentations.
While there was no official statement from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Government sources said the meeting discussed the new areas of conflict between the Kuki and Naga communities.
At least 40 people have been killed since February 4, when the President’s Rule was revoked in the State and the elected Government was restored.
Border fencing
Mr Shah was apprised of the progress of fencing along the 1,643-km India-Myanmar border. Sources said that around 50 km of the border had been fenced so far. The Government had approved fencing of the entire border in March 2024, at a cost of Rs 31,000 crore.
India and Myanmar share an unfenced border and have a unique arrangement called the Free Movement Regime (FMR). The FMR was revised in 2024, and the limits of free movement of people, without visas and passports, on either side of the unfenced border, were decreased from 16 km to 10 km.
The meeting also discussed the recovery of looted police weapons and other arms and the fresh influx of refugees from Myanmar, following the continuous civil unrest in the neighbouring country, sources said.
The ethnic violence, which first erupted between the Kuki and Meitei communities on May 3, 2023, has now expanded to Kuki and Naga communities and has claimed the lives of 300 people so far. The Hindu