A statement issued by the investigative agency said that the Jiribam area of Rajkumar is related to the rebellious group People’s Revolutionary Party (Prepak).
He said he was one of the key perpetrators of the crime, with a woman named Zosangkim killed and robbed in November 2024 at Zairawn Village.
The NIA arrested two other accused militants last week, belonging to different radical clothing.
The agency is continuing its investigation and is looking for other perpetrators of the horrible crime, the statement said.
According to her autopsy report, the 31-year-old tribal woman was killed on November 7 and suffered 99% of her burns. The report said several body parts and limbs of the victim were missing, and the chemically analyzed viscera could not be collected because most people were burnt and unrecognizable. It says: “The parts and facial structures of the right upper and lower limbs are missing.”
More than 260 people have been killed and thousands have been homeless since May 2023 in the violence between Meiteis, based in the Imphal Valley and Kuki-Zo groups adjacent to the hills.
The centre exerted the presidential rule in Manipur on February 13 this year after Chief Minister N Biren Singh resigned.
The violence began after the “tribal solidarity march” was organized in the Hill area to protest the demand for the Metti community for the pre-ordered tribe (ST) status.
Jiribam, who was largely not racially diverse by the conflict, witnessed the violence after a body of a limb was found in a field in June last year.
Meiteis accounts for 53% of the Manipur population, mainly in the Imphal Valley. Nagas and Kukis tribes – make up more than 40% of them, living in the mountains.
