An allegation in a video posted on social media that a delegation from Rajasthan was extorted at gunpoint when they were travelling in Manipur for the National School Games Championship raised alarm on Monday, leading to the Youth and Sports Department asking police to look into it. However, after the issue escalated, the person who spoke in the video — a parent of one of the participating students — said he “miscommunicated” and that while their driver had “been taken aside for some time” when they were travelling on the highway to Imphal, they had not been extorted. In the video shared online on Monday, a man named Sunil Sunda was heard raising complaints about train ticket arrangements for the games. In the video, he said, “And in the middle, the Kukis had stopped the children at gunpoint for two hours and took money from the team.”

Source: Indian Express January 20, 2026 03:09 UTC