IMPHAL — Women tribal organisations in Manipur on Wednesday organised a protest rally and submitted a memorandum to Home Minister Amit Shah through the Deputy Commissioner of the state’s Churachandpur district demanding a Supreme Court-monitored Special Investigation Team-led probe into the “extra judicial action of Assam Police against three Hmar tribal youths”. Assam Police recently claimed that at least ‘three suspected militants’, belonging to Assam and Manipur, were killed while three police personnel were injured during an encounter in Cachar district on July 17. Many tribal organisations in Manipur have also been separately condemning the “brutal custodial deaths” of Lallungawi Hmar (21), Lalbiekkung Hmar (33), both residents of southern Assam, and K. Joshua Lalrinsang (35), a resident of Manipur’s Pherzawl district “by Assam Police”. Hmar Women Association President Rebecca Hmar and Kuki Women Organisation for Human Rights President Ngaineikim Haokip in their jointly signed memorandum to the Home Minister, demanded an impartial investigation. The memorandum, sent to the Home Minister through the Deputy Commissioner, Churachandpur district, said that the three individuals succumbed to death while they were under the custody of police as a result of their arrest and at a place outside the police station, with a purported video...