New Delhi: A stampede in Manipur’s Bishnupur district, sparked by tear gassing by security forces during a protest attended by 10,000 people, has led to injuries among 40 people.The Hindu has reported that the crowds had converged to demand the removal of an Army barricade and that a stand-off lasted throughout the day.The crowd allegedly also threw stones at the security forces, leading to injuries in three soldiers attached to the Rapid Action Force.The barricade had been placed in a buffer zone between the district boundaries of Bishnupur and Churachandpur. Meitei groups were against it, the Hindu report said.The September 6 protest was the result of a call by the influential Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI) of Meiteis.Supreme Court on armsMeanwhile, a bench of Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misra asked the Manipur government and the law enforcement agencies active in the state to file a status report on the recovery of arms made from “all sources”, PTI has reported.“Let a status report be furnished to this court by the government. The report shall be made available only to this court,” the bench said.The Hindu has further reported that the bench stressed that it was “not concerned with who looted.”“We are looking at it as we have said repeatedly that we are not concerned with the source of the wrongdoing,” it added.CJI Chandrachud reiterated that as was the case of human suffering, for disarmament also the court is not bothered at this stage about the source of the wrongdoing but the fact that there has to be accountability for it.“We are dealing with this objectively. The state has to take action irrespective of the source where the illegal arms are situated,” the CJI said.Lawyer objects to Manipur affidavitBar and Bench has reported that the lawyer appearing for the all-woman judges committee appointed by the Supreme Court to oversee the Manipur violence cases, Senior Advocate Meenakshi Arora, said that she took strong objection to being ‘attacked’ by the government in its affidavit before the top court.In its affidavit, the state has claimed that Arora’s submissions on outbreaks of measles and chickenpox and lack of rations have created panic in the state.The state claimed that these claims were “without any factual verification and without any consultation with the relevant government authorities”.“The entire affidavit is nothing but just an attack on me. Seeing the entire situation, I am recusing myself,” Arora told the bench, which noted that comments will not be construed as having been made against the counsel.