Couple assaulted in Delhi : TKLD condemns
Source: The Sangai Express
New Delhi, June 02 2014:
A group of about 10-15 youths belonging to a particular community from Manipur allegedly attacked a Tangkhul couple who were returning home after dinner outside at Kotla Mubarakpur in South Delhi on May 28 night.
In a statement the President of Tangkhul Katamnao Long, Delhi (TKLD), Phungshok Khongreiwoshi has strongly condemned the incident.
The couple were reportedly stopped by four-five men who blocked their way and when the husband intervened the men began to molest the wife and beat up the husband.
After the couple was physically assaulted, the accused fled from the spot.
The statement said that the accused came back with more people, about 10-15 of them, and brutally assaulted the husband while four-five of them sexually assaulted the wife again.
They also used abusive and derogatory language against the couple's community with an intention to create communal hatred, the statement quoted.
An FIR was lodged (FIR 455) under IPC 323/341/354 but so far only one accused identified as Jimson has been arrested the statement said while condemning the Police's inaction.
TKLD also mentioned that one of the accussed claimed to be a son of a politician ( an MP) and even threatened the victim.
The Delhi Tangkhul Students also expressed concern over the manifestation of a deeply rooted divide between the two communities in Manipur in such kind of violence.
"We will not sit quietly while our sisters and mothers are molested and our brothers and fathers are assaulted and humiliated.
Our voices will be heard although we do not encourage violent acts," the statement warned.
It further stated that such acts reflect the continued hegemony of a community towards the Tangkhuls in particular, as well as other tribal communities in Manipur.
Saying that there is a limit to such discrimination, the TKLD stated that this act further reflects the system that governs the Government of Manipur that has politically structured permitting one community to continuously dominate and exploit other tribal communities of Manipur.
That, the series of incidences of violence against Tribals is nothing but the product of the system or the grand strategy that has structurally constituted the State machinery.
Therefore TKLD demanded that there should be an adequate structural change in the political representation and administration of the State of Manipur.