Imphal: The Manipur High Court on Saturday ordered the N Biren Singh-led BJP government to allow internet access for people who have leased lines and fibre optic connections in the violence-hit state. 

The government had suspended the internet in the state after ethnic violence broke out on May 3 between the Meiti and Kuki communities over the issue of Meiti’s Scheduled Tribes status. 

Violence erupted even today

Earlier today, As many as four persons, including a policeman and a teenage boy, were killed and several others sustained injuries in fresh separate incidents in border areas between Bishnupur and Churanchanpur district of Manipur in the last 24 hours. 

According to sources, while the Policemen were shot dead in a gunfight with suspected militants yesterday evening, the three others died on Saturday morning. 

The Bishnupur district has been the most sensitive area since the beginning of the ethnic violence as it has proximity to both the Meiti and Kuki communities, said sources.

The Manipur has been burning for the past 2 months and all the efforts to maintain peace is being not paying off. 

The violence erupted in the first week of May after people from the Kuki community staged a protest against the issuance of Schedule Cast status to the majority Meiti community. The protest turned into an ethnic war between the two communities.   

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