IFP Editorial, Feb. 26 -- Once again, Poknapham has been threatened to stop publication for six months by a group. A joint meeting of All Manipur Working Journalists' Union and Editors' Guild Manipur have decided on a 48 hour cease work strike of journalists.

Twelve years ago, a young journalist named Konsam Rishikanta Singh of Imphal Free Press was found shot dead in a lonely road within the Greater Imphal area. The local press fraternity suspecting the hand of state forces had then made a demand for a high level inquiry. Newspapers went off the stands for 13 days till the government came to senses by deciding to hand over the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The mystery of Rishikanta's murder still remains unsolved ti...