"To avoid punishment from the school, three girls cooked up a story and told that they were among the group of 20 kidnapped students by masked men on their way to school," a police official said.
According to official sources within the Army and police, the clash erupted in the early hours of the morning at Thowai village, situated near Litan in Ukhrul district.
The ITLF, one of the leading and influential tribal bodies of Manipur, said boycotting of the Assembly session is also in solidarity with the killings and attacks on the tribals.
Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Wednesday informed that the Centre is yet to take a decision with regards to students of Meghalaya, whose studies have been affected by the violence in the state of Manipur.
Ia a•sel ong•ani ja•man, Union Home Minister for State Nityanad Rai-ba, Indigenous Tribal Leaders Forum (ITLF) aro Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI)-na chitti seatenba, Manipur a•doko tom•tomaniko rakkichina mol•molataha.
Opposition INDIA’s delegation reached the Manipur capital, Imphal, on Saturday afternoon to assess the situation in the ethnically-torn state that has been encased under violence for close to 3 months.