Murder of Loitam Richard : NESO seeks Home Minister's intervention
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 03 2012:
Apart from seeking the intervention of Union Home Minister, P Chidambaram in the death incidents of two students from North East in Delhi and Bangalore, the North East Students' Organisation (NESO) has demanded the Union Home Minister to initiate high level enquiry into the two incidents.
In a memorandum, the NESO has also urged the Home Minister P Chidambaram to give exemplary punishment to the criminals associated with the death of Dhana M Sangma in Delhi and Richard Loitam in Bangalore recently.
The NESO memo reminded the Home Minister that many students of the North Eastern states have been studying in Delhi, Bangalore and other metropolis in the absence of lack of proper and sufficient local academic facilities.
The NE's apex students' body said it is unfortunate that there has been frequent incidents of discrimination faced by the youngsters from NE studying or living in different parts of the country while adding that it is a matter of serious concern that NE students are not safe in the National Capital, New Delhi.
The situation has become so intense and serious that brilliant students from the region like Dana M Sangma from Meghalaya, a student of Amity University had to comit suicide in the face of unwanted trauma.
Similarly, Richard Loitam from Manipur died under unnatural and mysterious circumstances in Bangalore recently, the NESO memo apprised the HM.
Against these backdrops, NESO has urged the intervention of the Home Minister and do the needful for urgent effective measures by the appropriate authorities which could give mental, social and physical security to the students and people of NE region residing in other parts of the country.
The students' body also demanded proper and swift high level enquiry of the two recent incidents�the death of Dana Sangma in Delhi and death of Loitam Richard in Bangalore, and to give exemplary punishment to the culprits involved in the incidents.