NSUD takes molestation case to cops
Source: The Sangai Express / Ninglun Hanghal

New Delhi, June 19 2012: Around a hundred youth from Manipur turned up at the Naraina Police station in New Delhi today to meet the Station House Officer incharge of the police station over a case relating to molestation of two girls by locals.

An FIR was filed yesterday at the police station in the aftermath of an incident where two girls from Manipur who alleged that local men living nearby their rented house behaved indecently.

The two girls were reportedly speaking over the phone from their balcony in the rented room, when the local men who were standing below flashed at them.

Even after the girls along with their friends asked them to apologise or they would go to the police, the local men were indifferent.

"We came here today to the police station to have a talk with the officials on how to tackle such problems, which is very frequent in Delhi" said Naga Students' Union leader Alexander.

Another youth added "So many such incidents are happening in this area alone, many are unreported" .

Students from the North East at the police station to lodge their complaint

On being asked whether the youths have approached the police station under the new directive from the Ministry of Home Affairs that recently came out with a notification that any complaint or act of offence against the North East people will be punished under the Atrocities Against ST and SC Act, the students told The Sangai Express that the officials at the Naraina Police Station reasoned that the case cannot be registered under the said directive as a written information have not been provided to them and neither is it included under the Indian Penal Code.

Subsequently an FIR was registered under IPC section 509 .

Though the SHO Rakesh had assured them of action, reportedly the Police officer was of the opinion that the case cannot be booked under "racial discrimination' or harassment against North East maintaining that such act would have been committed to any girl at that point of time.

While the student leaders were not convinced, the mater is likely to take them frequently to the police station to keep a watch on how the case is being taken up.