GUWAHATI: The Indian Army on Monday mentioned {that a} video circulating on social media that claimed there was a scuffle between the Assam Rifles and Manipur Police which led to an individual’s loss of life was a faux.

“A fake video has emerged depicting casualties of a particular unit of Assam Rifles in Manipur. It is clarified that neither has there been any such clash between Assam Rifles and Manipur Police nor have any casualties occurred,” the rebuttal issued by Lt Col Amit Shukla, PRO (Defence), Kohima, learn.

In the widely-circulated video, a gaggle of individuals in olive inexperienced outfits are seen carrying some injured individuals whereas some others making an attempt to revive individuals mendacity on the bottom. Social media posts claimed that the video was of a conflict between 37 battalion of Assam Rifles and Manipur Police.

The military assertion mentioned the video was “of a training activity” in Punjab in 2021.

“This is yet another failed attempt by inimical elements to build hate against those at the forefront of preventing violence,” it added.

The video emerged on social media on Sunday, days after one other video of a heated argument between Assam Rifles and Manipur Police personnel went viral on social media. Following this incident, teams in Meitei-dominated Imphal Valley staged protests to demand the withdrawal of Assam Rifles from the state alleging that they weren’t neutral.

“Ever since clashes erupted in Manipur, Indian Army and Assam Rifles have been at the forefront in rescuing people across communities in an impartial manner. Reprehensibly, inimical elements, on numerous occasions, have made multiple failed attempts to malign the image of security forces in general and Assam Rifles in particular,” the assertion issued on Monday learn.

It added that the “synergized malicious campaign” was being run towards the Assam Rifles battalion because it has prevented many incidents of arson and attainable lack of human lives.

“Army and Assam Rifles will continue to work relentlessly till normalcy is restored and would once again request all sections of media to exercise greater than normal prudence, in these trying times in Manipur,” the assertion learn.

On June 1, Indian Army issued one other assertion denouncing a message posted on social media which gave out private particulars of military officers of a selected group concerned in inner safety duties in Manipur. The publish had solid aspersions on these officers.

“All ranks of Indian Army are race, caste, creed and gender agnostic—fair to all and fear none…the post is an attempt to undermine an institution that is a microcosm of the nation and has never let regional biases interfere in its functioning,” the military assertion of June 1 mentioned.

Ethnic violence between Meitei and Kuki communities which began on May 3 has claimed a minimum of 98 lives, accidents to over 300 and displaced greater than 35,000 individuals. A complete of 135 columns of the military and Assam Rifles are deployed in Manipur as a part of the trouble to revive peace.

Meanwhile, the Manipur authorities on Monday prolonged the continued shutdown of web providers, which began on May 4, by one other 5 days until 3pm of June 10. The authorities mentioned it was carried out to “curb the spread of false news, rumours and misinformation through social media platforms”.

Differences have cropped up amongst Kuki teams over the choice by one organisation to carry the blockade of a bit of the Imphal-Dimapur NH2 on Sunday following an enchantment by Union residence minister Amit Shah to permit clean transportation of important objects.

On Sunday, the Kangpokpi district unit of the Committee on Tribal Unity (COTU) issued an announcement that the blockade on NH2 could be suspended for seven days starting Monday for 4 hours (between 10am and 2pm) to permit motion of important commodities and medical provides.

On Monday, a number of branches of Kuki Students Union condemned the COTU transfer “for failure to take notice of arson and firing taking place at Sugnu”. The assertion added that selections taken with out consensus could be deemed null and void.