Sit-in protests molestation, murder bid
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, May 23 2022:
Womenfolk of Tera Loukrakpam Leikai and Amudon Akham Leikai on Monday, staged a sit-in protest at Tera Loukrakpam Leikai, condemning the sexual molestation of a 5-year old girl and life attempt on her father by one school van driver named Irom Rakesh.
Meanwhile, a source informed that Rakesh has surrendered at Lamsang police station around 8.30 pm Monday while police are doing the needful to round up others allegedly involved in the murder bid of the girl's father.
Earlier, speaking on the sidelines of the protest, one Paonam Sanahanbi alleged that on April 2, 2018, Irom Rakesh, who hails from Lamboi Khongnangkhong Mamang Leikai molested a 5-year-old female student.
A case was registered against him under POCSO Act and he was arrested and spent some time in jail.
On May 20, around 8.30 pm, a group of 6 people led by Irom Rakesh ganged up on the victim's father along Iroisemba Chingjin Lamdeng road, and brutally beat him up, before leaving him to his own fate.
However, police are yet to arrest Rakesh and his accomplices till date.
As such, Sanahanbi appealed to the local clubs and Meira Paibi associations of Rakesh's locality to help in getting him arrested.
She then cautioned of launching intense protests if the police fail to apprehend Rakesh and his partners in crime at the earliest.