India, March 22 -- A delegation of five Supreme Court judges arrived in Imphal on Saturday for a three-day visit to monitor ongoing initiatives of the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) supporting communities affected by the ethnic clashes in Manipur and assured the internally displaced persons (IDPs) that peace would return soon in the northeastern state.

The delegation included justices B R Gavai, Vikram Nath, M M Sundresh, K V Viswanathan, and N Kotiswar Singh. "We came here on a goodwill mission, and peace and normalcy will return soon," justice Gavai, the executive chairman of NALSA, told media persons in Moirang, Bishnupur district, after his return from Churachandpur.

He declined to comment extensively, emphasising that, a...