Court seeks status report for abducting minor girl
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, November 04 2011:
The Gauhati High Court, Imphal Bench today instructed the Officer-in-Charge of Mayang Imphal Police Station to investigate an incident in which a married man dubiously abducted a 14 years old girl and confined her.
The court also instructed to submit a status report within 10 days of the commencement of investigaton or November 16 whichever is earlier.
The married man who abducted the girl was identified as one Thoudam Sanjit (34) from Uchiwa Awang Leikai and the victim was one Ichal (name changed) from Jiribam.
In the case filed by the mother of the victim girl, it was alleged that Sanjit abducted the victim on February 8 from Jiribam and has been absconding along with the victim hiding from place to place and raped the minor repeatedly against her will.
On March 21, 2011, the victim was brought to the home of Sanjit and kept there like a housemaid, it alleged.
Further that family members of the victim complained to the Jiribam PS about her missing but the OC refused to register a case.
With no option left, the family approached Manipur State Commission for Women and registered a complaint.
Following the complaint, a team of the commission conducted a spot visit at the house of the abductor and found the victim living there.
The team told Sanjit and his family to come to the commission on October 25.On October 25 when Sanjit and his family produced the victim before the commission, they found out that the victim was pregnant and was expecting a child.
Realising the situation, the commission directed the Social Welfare Department to provide a safe shelter to the victim and conducted USG test which confirmed the pregnancy.
The victim was soon hospitalised in RIMS hospital and gave birth to a son on October 31.Consequently, some members of the commission on November 3 came along with some police personnel at Sagolband Mabudhou Mantri Leikai where the victim was taking shelter after she was discharged from hospital and asked the mother of the victim to come to the office of the commission.
After she reached the office of the commission, the commission members insisted her to sign a document which would allow the respondent Sanjit to take the victim and her son with him.
When the mother of the victim refused to sign the document, Sanjit along with the police personnel came to Sagolband and tried to take away the victim and the child.
However, local people of the area intervened and stopped them from doing so.
The complaint charged the respondent of kidnapping, rape and wrongful confinement to the minor under Section 376, 366 and 344 of the IPC.