Imphal, Jan. 25 -- The Manipur high court has directed the authorities concerned to remove a video showing the execution of a Meitei man allegedly by members of a banned Kuki group who abducted him and his Kuki fiancee, noting that the circulation of such a clip could disrupt public order in the strife-torn state. The matter has been listed for hearing on February 18. A single bench of justice Aribam Guneshwar Sharma passed the order on a writ petition filed by the Manipur government seeking the video's removal from all social media platforms. The plea was submitted through the Manipur Commissioner (Home), represented by the Advocate General. In the petition, the state said the video showed the killing of Mayanglangbam Rishikanta Singh, a member of the Metei community from Kakching Khunou in Kakching district. The video had been widely circulated on various social media platforms and could instigate communal flame between members of the Meitei and Kuki community, it said. The state, in its plea, requested the court to direct the Centre through the Department of Telecommunications, the Director General (cyber laws and e-security), the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), as well as social media companies such as Meta, Google/Youtube and Whatsapp, to take immediate action to remove or block the video. "As per MHA, the URLs are from social media platforms which have come to notice as the same are disseminating videos of the brutal killing of a man in Manipur, with the potential to disturb public order," the order said. The HC permitted the state to serve notices on the remaining respondents, and noted that since MeitY had already acted on the information received from the MHA's nodal officer....