NEW DELHI, Nov 13: The Centre extended the term of the commission probing the 2023 ethnic violence in Manipur for a seventh time and asked it to submit its report by May 20, 2027.
An official order issued on Friday said the commission would examine the causes and sequence of the violence and the role of the administration, and submit its report to the central government. The extension gave the panel nearly six more months to complete its inquiry.
The Centre constituted the commission on June 4, 2023, after ethnic clashes began in Manipur on May 3 that year. It was tasked with examining the causes and extent of the violence, attacks on people from different communities, and facts and developments linked to the incidents.
The commission was also asked to examine whether any authority or individual neglected their duty in preventing the violence and controlling the situation, and whether the administrative measures taken were adequate.
Former Gauhati High Court Chief Justice Ajay Lamba was the commission's first chairperson. After his resignation, former Supreme Court judge Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan took charge as chairperson on March 1, 2026. Retired IAS officer Himanshu Shekhar Das and retired IPS officer Aloka Prabhakar are the other members.
Hundreds of people were killed and thousands were rendered homeless in the ethnic conflict that began in May 2023. The commission's inquiry into the causes of the violence and administrative accountability is under way.
