TSL decries bail to rape accused
Source: Chronicle News Service / R Lester Makang
Ukhrul, April 26 2022:
Tangkhul Shanao Long (TSL) has decried granting of bail to a 67-year-old man arrested for raping and impregnating a minor girl.
TSL has urged competent authorities to immediately file the charge sheet and promptly execute due process of the case.
In a statement, TSL president Thingreiphi Lungharwoshi said that the organisation was shocked to learn that bail has been granted to the accused in the POCSO case No.09/POCSO/CWC-UkI/2021.Despite the lapse of seven months since the filing of the FIR and the subsequent arrest of the accused, charge sheet against the accused was not submitted to the court concerned, she alleged, adding that Ukhrul police station was not served with requisite notice for bail objection from the court.
It may be recalled here that the case concerns raping and impregnating a (then) 16-year-old minor girl in 2021 .
Following a criminal complaint filed by minor's father in August 2021, necessary police processes including registration of an FIR was undertaken and the accused
was subsequently arrested.