IMPHAL: The 24-hour statewide shutdown called by the Joint Action Committee (JAC) to protest the alleged custodial death of a 27-year-old youth earlier this month badly affected normal life in Manipur’s Imphal valley regions on Friday, officials said.
Police officials said that shops, markets, business establishments and educational institutions were closed, and all vehicles, except those of the security forces and emergency services, remained off the roads in the valley regions, especially in the Imphal East and Imphal West districts.
“There is no major incident relating to the shutdown,” a police official told IANS.
However, protesters blocked roads in Khurai Ningthoubung Leikai areas from where the victim hails and burnt unused tyres in the middle of roads to enforce the bandh.
Huge contingents of security forces were deployed in the entire Imphal valley region, especially in the Imphal East and Imphal West districts, to prevent incidents.
Imphal East’s District Magistrate Mayanglambam Rajkumar Singh on Thursday imposed prohibitory orders under Section 163 of BNSS ahead of a 24-hour bandh.
The orders prohibited the assembly of five or more people from the midnight of April 24 to the midnight of April 25. (IANS)
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