Based on a request from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), social media intermediaries such as YouTube, Meta, and Google have been directed to take down the viral video of the January 21 killing of a 29-year-old man in Manipur’s Churachandpur, on the ground that its circulation was “likely to disturb public order”.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) issued the blocking order on January 22 after receiving the request from the MHA’s Nodal Officer. “The order has been issued u/s 69 A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, read with the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking for Access of Information by Public) Rules, 2009,” the MeitY order said.
Manipur killing case being handed overto NIA, says Governor
Mayanglambam Rishikant Singh was abducted and shot dead by unidentified assailants, who recorded the killing on camera, in Churachandpur on January 21. Singh, a resident of Kakching and a member of the Meitei community, was visiting his wife, who belongs the Kuki-Zo community and lives in Churanchandpur district.
Singh had been working in Nepal for the past two years and had arrived in Churachandpur on December 19 via Aizawl in neighbouring Mizoram to visit his wife.
