Imphal: Miscreants suspected militants torched at least 10 houses and two tipper trucks at different places in the fresh violent incidents reported in the last 24 hours.

The torching of the 10 houses took place at Torbung, an abandoned village of Bishnupur district at the border with Churachandpur district, the epicenter of the recent violence that claimed so far 73 lives besides injuring hundreds of people.

Armed miscreants suspected torched the houses last night, villagers as well as official reports said.Residents of Torbung village taking shelter at safer places alleged that the suspects burnt down their houses despite presence of Central security forces.

Talking to reporters, the villagers alleged that the security forces remained like mere spectators even as the suspects set afire the houses.

They demanded the government give them arms as the security forces were unable to protect them and their properties and to remove the Central security forces from the area as they did nothing against the militants.

Bishnupur district SP N Herojit along with brigade commander Tiwari of 59 Mountain Division visited villagers of Torbung area currently taking shelter at adjacent Phaobakchao village Sunday morning and assured necessary security measures will be taken up immediately for safety of the villagers.

On the other hand, two out of five tipper trucks hijacked by armed miscreants were torched at a place at Kotlein village under Sapermaina police station of Kangpokpi district early today morning.

The other three tippers along with the drivers including those of torched vehicles were released unharmed, reports said. Meanwhile, addressing the media at chief minister’s secretariat on Sunday afternoon, security advisor to Manipur government, Kuldiep Singh informed that additional three companies of BSF have been deployed in the state after the fresh violence .

He said.the miscreants after torching houses, the suspects escaped toward the hills as the security forces chased them and no untoward incident was reported after the deployment of the Central security force.

Updating the law and situation of the state in the last 48 hours, the security advisor said apart from these fresh violence incidents, police today recovered a partial decomposed unidentified dead body from a place at Moirang Kumam Leikai under Moirang police station of Bishnupur district on Saturday evening.

With this, the death toll to the recent chain of violence in the state rose to 73. Among them, 41 died due to violence while others have died due to other causes, the security advisor said.

“Action will be taken after whatever results come out after the enquiry,” he said. Daniel Hmar, an assistant commandant of 86 CRPF based in Imphal’s Lamphelpat along with his personnel allegedly physically assaulted two locals of Sangaiporou when he visited his brother’s house which was partially damaged by a mob on the evening of May 3 last.

A team of Imphal West district police led by the SP who rushed to the locality immediately apprehended the assistant commandant and questioned him at Lamphel police station.

In three hill districts of Tengnoupal, Chandel and Kangpokpi, the curfew was relaxed from 6 am till 1 pm today. For Jiribam district, it was relaxed for ten hours, from 5 am till 3pm.

There was no relaxation of curfew in Churachandpur and its adjoining Pherzawl district and no curfew was imposed in hill districts of Tamenglong, Noney, Senapati, Ukhrul and Kamjong, he said.

A total of 385 FIRs have been lodged in connection with the violent incidents and so far 30 persons have been arrested.“The number of injured persons is 243 while the number of arson cases reported from the whole of the state is 1,809,” he said.

As many as 456 arms snatched by the unruly mobs from various police stations, were so far recovered, he added. “Various measures of confidence building are taken,” he said, adding that so far over 46,145 affected people were evacuated and they have moved to relief camps or to their localities where they were supposed to go.