Summary:
Women vendors across the city have staged a sit-in protest since Saturday. The situation turned uglier when they tried to take one of the injured women into custody and the agitators had to thwart the attempt,” Shantidevi said. Six women were injured as police fired teargas shells and threw smoke bombs to disperse antibill protesters in Imphal on Sunday evening.Protests by women vendors at Imphal’s Ima Market continued on Monday. With a ‘Rokto Hapath (Pledge by Blood)’, a dozen students on campus drew blood from their hands with syringes and blades, with which they wrote anti-bill messages on placards and banners. They tried to destroy tents and pulled down the banners that sought the unconditional revocation of the bill, she said.“Six women were injured..