Smoke from the abandoned house of passionate Miscreants in violence affected by manipur, in Imphal 5th August 2023.
Manipur reported more than 6,200 cases of arson in 2023 – a dramatic increase from less than 30 cases per year in each of the previous five years. The state itself represented 45% of all cases of arson given in India in 2023, of only 1% of the previous year.
The aforementioned findings are drawn from a crime in India 2023 statistics published by the Office of National Crime records (NCRB). Jealous cases fall within partitions of 435 to 438 IPCs dealing with non -fire or explosive substances, either with the intention of destroying the house or cause damage worth £ 100 or more.
Manipur has witnessed an ethnic conflict between the Meitei community based in the Imphal valley and the Kuki tribe based on the hill that broke out in May 2023 and caused violence until 2025. The clashes were left by hundreds of dead and almost 70,000 people displaced.
The reports documented widespread destruction, with hundreds of churches, houses, temples and vehicles around the state lit or vandalized. The sharp increase in arson cases in 2023 is in line with the timeline of this violence.
In fact, a sudden promontory in arsoning cases in manipure almost doubled the total number of arson cases in India, and in 2023 it rose to 13,626 compared to the previous year. This is the highest figure for at least six years. Between 2018 and 2022, India recorded an annual average of about 8,200 arson cases.
In 2023 manipuries reported almost six times as many arson cases as Maharashtra, standing with the second highest number. Maharashtra has seen the most arsoning cases of all states in the previous year.
With the entrances from Vignesh Radhakrishnan
Published – 1 October 2025 09:19 IS
