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The International Meeteis Forum has filed a PIL in the Manipur High Court to prevent reliance on the Editors Guild of India (EGI) report on Manipur and to clarify the funds for development spent in the Hills. The court has served notices to the Centre, Manipur government, and EGI members, and the case will be heard on October 12, 2023.
For its report on Manipur, FIR was lodged against four members of the EGI. A three-member fact-finding team of EGI after visiting Manipur, published its report in New Delhi recently, claiming that the media s reports on the ethnic violence in Manipur were one-sided, and accused the state leadership of being partisan.
Manipur's top forest officer has written to the state government denying allegations made by a fact-finding team of the Editors' Guild of India (EGI) that the N Biren Singh government did not follow due procedure in clearing hill encroachments.
A woman in Manipur who filed the second police case against the Editors' Guild of India (EGI) chief and three members of its fact-finding team has requested for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to take over the case.