Manipur Police confirmed that the incident took place on May 4 and a바카라 웹사이트zero FIR was registered in the matter at the Nongpok Sekmai Police Station, Thoubal district after two women from the Kuki community were allegedly paraded naked and raped.
The whole nation was shaken on Wednesday when a video, purportedly바카라 웹사이트showing two women from the Kuki-Zo바카라 웹사이트community in Manipur being paraded naked and being sexually assaulted openly by a mob of men, emerged on social media. The incident allegedly took place in바카라 웹사이트Kangpokpi district back in May when the ethnic clash in the northeastern state바카라 웹사이트erupted for the first time.바카라 웹사이트
A senior police officer confirmed that the incident took place on May 4 and a바카라 웹사이트zero FIR was registered in the matter on May 18 at the Nongpok Sekmai Police Station, Thoubal district. However, no arrests have been made바카라 웹사이트two months after the FIR was registered on바카라 웹사이트charges including abduction, gang rape and murder against "unknown armed miscreants".
Manipur Superintendent of Police K Meghachandra Singh, on Wednesday, said the “state police is making an all-out effort to arrest the culprits at the earliest”.
In the purported바카라 웹사이트video, two women from the Kuki-Zomi-dominated hill district of Kangpokpi, one in her 20s and the other in her 40s, were바카라 웹사이트seen being made to walk naked down a road by a mob of men. Some of the men were also seen dragging the two women towards a field and forcibly groping them.
In their complaint, the two women seen in the video also mentioned the presence of another woman in her바카라 웹사이트50s who was also forced to take her clothes바카라 웹사이트off바카라 웹사이트by the mob.
The complaint also alleges that the younger woman was “brutally gang raped in broad daylight”.
According to the complaint lodged by the women on May 18,바카라 웹사이트five members of the village, including the바카라 웹사이트three women and two family members of the youngest, had fled towards the forest as바카라 웹사이트a “group of 800-1,000 persons carrying sophisticated weapons like AK Rifles, SLR, INSAS and .303 Rifles” entered their village and바카라 웹사이트later looted바카라 웹사이트and burnt바카라 웹사이트it on May 4 afternoon, a day after violence had erupted in the state on May 3.
The victims alleged that police later came to rescue them. They were바카라 웹사이트being taken to the police station when a mob stopped them on the way and seized them from police custody around two kilometres away from the police station. They mentioned in the complaint that the mob forced바카라 웹사이트all three women바카라 웹사이트to remove their clothes and were stripped naked바카라 웹사이트after which they alleged that the youngest was raped in front of the others. They also alleged that her brother was killed while trying to help her.
It was also mentioned in the complaint that the youngest woman라이브 바카라 father was killed on the spot.
The three women were later able to escape through the adjoining hill district of Tengnoupal and are currently in relief camps.
In response to the release of the video, the Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum, a conglomerate of registered tribes in Churachandpur, demanded that the state and central governments, the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, and the National Commission for Women take cognizance of the incident and act against the perpetrators.
According to the official statement issued by Manipur Police on Wednesday, the state police and Central forces have concluded search operations in several vulnerable and fringe areas including the valley and hill districts.바카라 웹사이트
It has been reported that two arms with magazines were retrieved by the Imphal East district police during the search operation.
In a bid to maintain law and order, curfew relaxation has been curtailed in five valley districts.
The official statement also said that 126 checkpoints have been installed in different districts of Manipur while police have made 452 arrests in connection with rule violations in different districts.
To restore normalcy in the state,바카라 웹사이트authorities have appealed for public cooperation.