Manipur video case: Sixth suspect arrested in reference to bare parading of two ladies

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GUWAHATI: A sixth suspect within the Manipur viral video case was arrested on Saturday in reference to the May 4 bare parading and molestation of two tribal ladies within the Kangpokpi district.

Police arrested the sixth suspect from the Thoubal district. Five suspects, together with a juvenile, have been arrested earlier. Four of these have been despatched to 11-day police remand. 

Police had made the primary arrest on Thursday, a day after a 26-second video of the horrific incident surfaced on July 19. Three extra arrests have been made later that day. The fifth accused, 19-year-old youth, was additionally arrested on Saturday. One of the ladies seen within the video is the spouse of an ex-army man, who served as a subedar within the Assam Regiment and had even fought within the Kargil War.

“The State Police is making an all-out effort to arrest the remaining culprits by conducting raids at many suspected hideouts,” an announcement issued by Manipur police stated.

The police appealed to folks to not imagine in rumours. They stated any circulation of “unfounded videos etc may be confirmed from the rumour-free number…”

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The Kuki Students’ Organisation (KSO) claimed there are numerous extra movies just like what went viral on July 19 and will come out anytime quickly. The tribal college students’ physique alleged that two different younger Kuki ladies have been additionally murdered on May 4, the identical day because the horrific bare parading incident.

“For instance, a video clip of Meira Paibis (members of women groups) pushing two Kuki girls in Imphal towards the men (Meitei mob) asking them to rape went viral and later on, both were killed,” the KSO alleged in an announcement on Saturday.

Talking about one other incident of May 4, the organisation alleged, “two Kuki girls…from the Kangpokpi district were molested, raped and later, killed at their workplace at Konung Mamang, Imphal.”

The KSO lamented that no motion was taken in opposition to any of these concerned within the two incidents. It demanded that the federal government guide the culprits.

The organisation stated instances, just like the one involving July 19 viral video, are registered in numerous police stations however the state authorities allegedly hid them. It stated the federal government suspended web for the concern that the movies of these incidents would resurface as soon as the web is restored.

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More than 160 folks have misplaced their lives, and several other have been injured since ethnic violence broke out within the state on May 3, when a ‘Tribal Solidarity March’ was organised within the hill districts to protest in opposition to the Meitei neighborhood’s demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) standing.

Meiteis account for about 53 per cent of Manipur’s inhabitants and reside principally within the Imphal Valley, whereas tribals, which embody Nagas and Kukis, represent 40 per cent and reside principally within the hill districts.

(With extra inputs from PTI)

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GUWAHATI: A sixth suspect within the Manipur viral video case was arrested on Saturday in reference to the May 4 bare parading and molestation of two tribal ladies within the Kangpokpi district.

Police arrested the sixth suspect from the Thoubal district. Five suspects, together with a juvenile, have been arrested earlier. Four of these have been despatched to 11-day police remand. 

Police had made the primary arrest on Thursday, a day after a 26-second video of the horrific incident surfaced on July 19. Three extra arrests have been made later that day. The fifth accused, 19-year-old youth, was additionally arrested on Saturday. One of the ladies seen within the video is the spouse of an ex-army man, who served as a subedar within the Assam Regiment and had even fought within the Kargil War.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

“The State Police is making an all-out effort to arrest the remaining culprits by conducting raids at many suspected hideouts,” an announcement issued by Manipur police stated.

The police appealed to folks to not imagine in rumours. They stated any circulation of “unfounded videos etc may be confirmed from the rumour-free number…”

ALSO READ | Manipur Viral video: Meitei exodus from Mizoram, 56 attain Manipur by flight

The Kuki Students’ Organisation (KSO) claimed there are numerous extra movies just like what went viral on July 19 and will come out anytime quickly. The tribal college students’ physique alleged that two different younger Kuki ladies have been additionally murdered on May 4, the identical day because the horrific bare parading incident.

“For instance, a video clip of Meira Paibis (members of women groups) pushing two Kuki girls in Imphal towards the men (Meitei mob) asking them to rape went viral and later on, both were killed,” the KSO alleged in an announcement on Saturday.

Talking about one other incident of May 4, the organisation alleged, “two Kuki girls…from the Kangpokpi district were molested, raped and later, killed at their workplace at Konung Mamang, Imphal.”

The KSO lamented that no motion was taken in opposition to any of these concerned within the two incidents. It demanded that the federal government guide the culprits.

The organisation stated instances, just like the one involving July 19 viral video, are registered in numerous police stations however the state authorities allegedly hid them. It stated the federal government suspended web for the concern that the movies of these incidents would resurface as soon as the web is restored.

ALSO READ | ‘Rape, homicide of two ladies in Manipur’: No part pertaining to sexual assault talked about in FIR 

More than 160 folks have misplaced their lives, and several other have been injured since ethnic violence broke out within the state on May 3, when a ‘Tribal Solidarity March’ was organised within the hill districts to protest in opposition to the Meitei neighborhood’s demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) standing.

Meiteis account for about 53 per cent of Manipur’s inhabitants and reside principally within the Imphal Valley, whereas tribals, which embody Nagas and Kukis, represent 40 per cent and reside principally within the hill districts.

(With extra inputs from PTI)

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