India, Dec. 17 -- New Delhi, December 17 [India] (ANI) The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has approved another, seemingly final, extension for the Commission of Inquiry probing the ethnic violence in Manipur, instructing it to submit its report "as soon as possible, but no later than May 20, 2026."

This is the fifth time the tenure of the three-member Commission, established in 2023 following the May 3 Manipur violence, has been extended. The Commission is led by former Gauhati High Court Chief Justice Ajai Lamba, with retired IAS officer Himanshu Shekhar Das and retired IPS officer Aloka Prabhakar as its members.

The commission is tasked with probing the ethnic violence that erupted in Manipur on May 3, 2023, examining its causes as we...