"Manipur Women's Protest Leads to Release of 12 Militants"

A mob of almost 1,500 women in Manipur's Imphal district interrupted a counter-insurgency operation and forced the Army to release 12 cadres of the banned Kanglei Yawol Kunna Lup (KYKL), including a wanted militant identified as the mastermind of the 2015 Chandel ambush. The mob prevented security forces from continuing with the operation despite repeated appeals to disperse. The Army retained the weapons, ammunition and "war-like stores" seized from the militants.