Upon deportation from his settlement, many Lushai chiefs viewed this as a breach of faith and a source of resistance to cooperating with the British.
[4] The nature of the raid prompted British authorities such as Sealy, the maigstrate of Sylhet, to conduct an investigation.
[2] The British authorities officially filed the incident as a ritual to procure a chieftain's funeral as Lushais did practice headhunting.
The authorities based this off of eye witnesses who saw the ritual drying of Laroo's corpse in the house courtyard.
They assumed that Krishna Maniyka enabled the raid by Lalchukla for the purpose of settling a dispute over territory.
[4] Krishna Manikya failed to answer to the British for Lalchukla's crimes as the kingdom of Tripura lacked de-facto control over the Lushai-Kuki tribes.
[3] To restore the confidence of the Manipuri villagers and labourers, the British decided on a policy of urgent punishment for the raiders.
Upon further investigation, despite being a tributary to the Tripura Kingdom, the British designated the Paite tribes as de-facto independent.
Krishna Kishor Manikya offered to open up a channel for negotiation and resort to armed intervention if Lalchukla refused to do so.
Krishna Manikya voiced his concerns about the heavy rainfall seasons and the feasibility of a successful expedition, which was unsuccessful.
Lalchukla was unprepared because he had been negotiating with Krishna Manikya and didn't anticipate the British would form a punitive expedition.
[3] The two princes who wished to overthrow the Manipur king and take the throne overran the territory of Chief Laroo out of spite, who refused to help them.
[3][14] Deputy Commissioner of Cachar, Edgar in his notes of a tour of the Lushai Hills, suspected that Lalchukla raided on orders of Mungpira and was spinning a false narrative to defend him.
[11] In court, Lalchukla stated he did not personally participate in the raid of Kachubari but did direct it to avenge the death of his father.
After Lalchukla was deported to Sylhet and mandated to live in exile in the outhouse of Zamindar Ali Amzad, Murchuilal accompanied him for the first few years.