The rented room of a journalist working in a local TV channel N Kumar at Wangkhei in Imphal East was engulfed in flames, reducing all belongings to ashes on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday.
The Human Rights Defenders’ Alert has appealed to the NHRC for action against the “harassment, illegal house search, and arbitrary detention” of Hemantakumar Ningombam, editor of Sanaleibak, a Manipuri daily.