An official probe has found that villagers in the area had complained to local militant groups that some people from the Meitei community were regularly felling trees and taking away wood in the Khongbal Sunulok Hills.
Militant-backed Akal Takht jathedar Gurbachan Singh Manochahal escaped after an encounter with security forces. A school teacher was shot and wounded and nine terrorists were arrested in Punjab during the past 24 hours.
Ramban court rejects defence plea citing discrepancies in eyewitness accounts and delays in recording statements, says medical evidence explains why two survivors of the 2005 militant attack could not speak earlier
