Imphal, February 06 2010: Women of state carried out a protest demonstration today and demanded that government should take up tangible actions to ensure right to life of the women and girls in the state.

Thousands of women of all age ranges took part in the rally cum public meeting jointly organised by the Conflict Widow's Forum, Manipur and Women Action for Development, Manipur on Imphal streets.

The rally cum public meeting was organised as a protest to brutal act of rape and murder and violence towards the women section of the society.

Women and girls feel precarious and insecure even in their own home as they are becoming an easy target in the hand of the perpetrators in the state of Manipur, they cried on government failure to arrest offenders/culprits in the recent cases of rape and murder of widow and her teenage daughter in Imphal west district.

Four cases of rape and murder and violence against women reported in Manipur during the month of January 2010.A total of 16 cases related with violation of rights of women were reported during the year 2009 .

On January 9, 2010, two women of a family at Hiyangthang in Imphal west district were shot at to injure by some unidentified armed youths suspected to be undergrounds.

A woman named Sadokpam Sangeeta (34), victim of HIV was found dead hanging in the verandah of her residence in a suspicious circumstance at Ghari Awang Leikai, Imphal in the mid January which was followed by recovery of dead bodies of a young widow and her teenage daughter abducted by miscreants on January 23 morning.

The recent one being rape and murder of a 26-year old girl RK Ratanmala of Khurai of Imphal east district allegedly by her lover boy Soibam Dhanabir.

She was brutally killed after committing rape by her "treachery and bogus" boy friends.

"Most unfortunately, government till date could not arrest offenders/culprits except the accused who killed RK Ratanmala," speakers in the meeting lamented in the meeting held BOAT, Palace Compound, Imphal.

The public meeting unanimously resolved a six-point resolutions which they submitted in the formed of memorandum to the Governor of Manipur.

The same will also be forwarded to the President of India, the organizers said.

"In the memorandum drafted by today's meeting we put down six point charters of demands," L Ranjita Devi, convener, COWF, Imphal east said.

Arrest of culprits involved in the killing and rape of innocent women and girls and punish them according to law, government take care of those children whose mothers were killed under Juvenile Justice Act, immediate arrest and punishment of those child traffickers and making of a state children policy as preventive measures, making of a policy for speedy trial of the cases relating to rape and murder etc.

are the demands that drew the attention of the government in the memorandum.

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