UNM-M demands justice
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 20 2021:
The United NGOs Mission-Manipur has strongly condemned the alleged kidnapping, confinement, threat of rape and murder, keina katpa (a form of forced marriage) to a PhD scholar of JNU.
In a statement issued today, UNM-M said the confinement and threat are an act of total denial of one's consent in determining her most important decision of her life.
As consent is one of the most important elements for the determination of whether any act of elopement is against law or not, if there is an absence of consent of the girl involved in the elopement, it would be considered as a criminal offense and the boy or the person involved in such an inhuman act is punishable under the law, added the statement.