Constable Thoudam Gojendro Singh of Manipur Police swapped his uniform for civvies, walked to NH-2 at Koirengei Crossing, and joined the stone-pelting mob attacking his own colleagues' vehicles. His colleagues arrested him two days later. The same week, the same force booked a 29-year-old for inflammatory social media posts sent from inside the government relief camp he was living in because of the same violence.
Manipur's law-and-order crisis has reached its logical conclusion: the police are now policing the police. On April 21–22, Manipur Police arrested two of their own personnel — Constable Thoudam Gojendro Singh of Tingri Makha Leikai among them — for allegedly changing out of uniform, joining protests at Koirengei Crossing on NH-2, pelting stones, operating a slingshot, torching vehicles, and attacking security forces. The protests followed the April 7 rocket-projectile deaths of an infant and a toddler in Bishnupur — a tragedy the state has apparently been responding to by fragmenting into its constituent subunits and attacking itself. Twenty-one others were arrested for mob violence on April 20 alone. The administrative flourish came on April 21, when the force booked a 29-year-old for inflammatory social media posts sent from inside a government-run relief camp — which requires a separate essay on how he still had a data plan and a grievance after being displaced by the very state now prosecuting him. The operational theory of 'maintaining order' has been quietly downgraded to 'recording the disorder for the record.'