The KNF-MC had put up a signboard at the base of the Thangjing ching (hill), calling it “Thangting camp” of the “Kuki Army”. Manipur government has filed an FIR against the “Kuki National Front-Military Council” (KNF-MC) for renaming a sacred hill and turning the area into its “camp”. Based on the FIR lodged with the Imphal police station by the state’s Land Resources Department, the police registered a case. The FIR said the present-day Thangjing Hill range falls within the Churachandpur-Khoupum Protected Forests which was notified on September 17, 1966 under the Indian Forest Act, 1927. It is a revered pilgrimage site for the followers of Sanamahism, the traditional ethnic religion of people belonging to the Meitei community.