Manipur Police group meets victims of parade incident, begins means of recording statements

By PTI

IMPHAL: Manipur Police has bought in contact with the 2 ladies, who have been paraded bare in May after which sexually assaulted, and have been within the means of recording their assertion, officers stated right here on Friday.

They stated maintaining in thoughts the scenario arising out of ethnic clashes that broke out within the state on May 4, a group of ladies officers and personnel from Manipur police was shaped to probe the case.

The officers stated the group had met the members of the family in addition to the 2 ladies and the method of recording their statements has begun.

The means of figuring out eyewitnesses and recording their statements has additionally begun, they added.

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According to high authorities sources in New Delhi, the instances pertaining to the sexual assault have been more likely to be handed over to the CBI.

Reacting to the arrest of individuals within the viral video case, spokesperson of the Indigenous Tribal Leaders Forum (ITLF) Ginza Vualzong termed it “too little, too late”.

“I would have appreciated it if the culprits were arrested before the video went viral. The FIR was registered on May 18. There are many more such cases. Having said that I would also like to clarify that arresting people would not solve the larger issues of the state which has been witnessing ethnic clashes,” he stated.

“I request the Centre to take the Manipur issue seriously and take steps to end the violence and come up with a solution,” he stated.

Police have arrested as many as seven folks together with a juvenile in reference to the case up to now.

Tension had mounted within the hills of Manipur after a May 4 video surfaced on June 19 displaying two tribal ladies being paraded bare by some males from the opposite facet in Kangpokpi district.

Police had registered a case of abduction, gang rape and homicide at Nongpok Sekmai police station in Thoubal district towards unknown armed individuals.

The video which drew widespread condemnation reveals males continuously molesting the 2 helpless ladies, who cry and plead with their captors to spare them.

Manipur has been witnessing ethnic clashes since May 3 between the vast majority of the Meiteis, concentrated in Imphal valley, and the Kukis, occupying the hills.

Over 150 folks have been killed within the violence up to now. Meiteis account for about 53 per cent of Manipur’s inhabitants and dwell largely within the Imphal Valley, whereas tribals, which embrace Nagas and Kukis, represent 40 per cent and reside largely within the hill districts.

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