Many demand justice for Roji
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 07 2016:
Strongly condemning the ‘murder’ of Yumnam Roji, who was found dead inside a pond yesterday, a large number of people staged a dharna demanding fitting punishment of the killers.
Yumnam Roji who was 19 was set to marry on October 21.Accusing one Khwairakpam Punshiba (18), the boy Roji was set to marry on October 21, a member of the JAC formed after the body of the girl was found, said that it was Punshiba who strangled Roji to death after eloping with her and promising to marry her.
Such a killer should be arrested and hung to death, she added.
The JAC Against the Killing of Y Roji, which organised today’s dharna, put up placards which read as ‘Punish killers of women ’, ‘Arrest the culprits and give them fitting punishment’, ‘Hang the killers’.
On the other hand post mortem of the late girl was conducted at the morgue of JNIMS today.
The JAC has however refused to claim the body demanding that the guilty persons be first pulled up and given fitting punishment.
Khwairakpam Punshiba who was pulled up by the police yesterday for interrogation was today produced before the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Thoubal and was later remanded to police custody for 10 days.
Not long after Punshiba was produced before the Court, a large number of womenfolk descended at the Court and physically assaulted Punshiba.
Police managed to disperse the incensed womenfolk after some time.
Human rights and electoral politics deliberated Newmai News Network IMPHAL, Oct 7: Noted scholar Dr Arambam Lokendra has said that “Conflict situation has been a critical problem.
Values of human dignity and freedom are absolutely being undermined by corruption now in the State.” He said this while speaking at the one-day National seminar on “Human Rights and Electoral Politics in Manipur” today.
Organised by the Centre for Human Rights and Duties Education, Manipur University at Tribal Research Institute (TRI), Chingmeirong, the seminar had two separate technical sessions where research scholars, Professors and experts talked on different topics.
It was organized with an aim to make people more aware about human rights and electoral politics in the conflict-hit State, especially during elections.
The session assumes significance in the backdrop of the ensuing State Assembly polls.
Continuing his speech, Dr Arambam Lokendra recalled how civil societies started to take up the issues of human rights by organizing seminar and discourses in the 80s when Manipur was also experiencing struggle for self-determination at the same time.