Guwahati, May 15 -- By NE NOW NEWS

Guwahati: The Centre has extended the tenure of the Commission of Inquiry probing the 2023 ethnic violence in Manipur by another six months, pushing the deadline for submission of its report to November 20, 2026.

A notification issued on Thursday said the three-member panel, headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan, has been directed to submit its report "as soon as possible but not later than November 20, 2026".

The commission was constituted on June 4, 2023, days after large-scale violence broke out across Manipur following a "Tribal Solidarity March" held in the hill districts on May 3 that year. The march was organised in opposition to the Meitei community's demand for Sch...