GUWAHATI: Manipur authorities retracted its intelligence report from 10 days in the past concerning the infiltration of “900 Kuki militants from Myanmar” amid issues over the leakage of delicate info as new police inputs surfaced Thursday that “Kuki Nationwide Military (KNA) cadres are set to escort arms, ammunition, and medicines from Myanmar”.
Ningthoujam Geoffre, secretary to CM N Biren Singh, defined in a press release that the sooner intelligence shared with police on Sept 16 about militants shifting from Myanmar to hold out assaults on Sept 28 was “based mostly on info gathered on the motion of armed teams” to “allow police division to make use of its equipment and community to develop the knowledge and decide actionability”.
“It’s now ascertained that the potential for any such misadventure by armed teams is distant. The general public needn’t fear additional on this regard,” Geoffre stated.
The retraction adopted a joint assertion by the DGP and govt’s safety advisor on Wednesday, saying: “There isn’t a foundation at the moment to imagine in any such enter. In view of the current reactions from totally different communities relating to the enter of infiltration of 900 skilled Kuki militants…it’s clarified that the enter was verified from totally different quarters, nevertheless it couldn’t be substantiated on the bottom.”
