15 days remand for rape accused
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 08 2013:
Irom Bobo (40) who allegedly raped a minor was produced before the Court of CJM Imphal West this afternoon and the Court remanded him to judicial custody for 15 days.
A large number of people from Tharoijam were already assembled in the vicinity of the Court complex and when police tried to take back the accused from the Court, people assembled there raised an uproar.
It was only with the arrival of additional police force led by Imphal West SDPO M Modhunimai that police managed to take away Bobo in a police Gypsy.
Bobo of Tharoijam Maning Leikai was rounded up by local womenfolk on the charge of raping a 12 year old girl in the night of July 1 and subsequently handed over to police.
He has been in police custody till today.
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Meanwhile, school students staged protest demonstrations at different places today demanding punishment of Bobo in a befitting manner.
Protest demonstrations were staged at Tharoijam, Sangaithel, Kachikhul and Maklang.
Thousands of people took out a torch rally last night in protest against the same crime.