Innocence robbed, 14 Yr old girl a mom now
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, November 07 2011: "My school going daughter was kidnapped, raped and tortured repeatedly and made a mother", cried Ngangbi looking at her 14 year old lactating daughter.

Denouncing the bestial act of kidnapping her daughter and keeping the 14 year old girl hostage for a prolonged period, the heart-broken mother sought befitting punishment of all those involved in the bestial crime as per the law of the land.

Notably, the Judicial Magistrate First Class, Imphal West issued an order on November 4 directing Mayang Imphal Police to investigate the kidnapping, rape and illegal detention of Rina (name changed), and submit a report by November 16 .

Rina, reading in class VIII went out to buy pan for her mother from a shop of their locality at Jiribam in the evening of February 8 this year.

As she approached the pan-shop, one Thoudem Sanjit, around 34 years old, addressed Rina as Abe.

As Rina was taken by surprise for a moment, Sanjit caught Rina and put her into a Bolero jeep.

Then he hurriedly drove away the jeep.

Sanjit took Rina to a house at Tolen village, Cachar and lied to the owners of the house saying that they (Sanjit and Rina) were eloping under a mutual understanding.

He kept Rina inside a locked room and raped the minor girl twice the same night.

Even as Rina pleaded to take her home, nobody heard her cries.

The next day, Rina was taken to Guwahati and she was kept there inside a hotel room for a whole month.

Sanjit never allowed Rina to talk to anybody and Sanjit always kept a vigil over her.

Whenever he went out, he locked the room from outside.

Rina was beaten up blue and black for she dared to go out and tried to contact her family from a PCO.

When she was thus confined inside the hotel room, Sanjit raped repeatedly.

Sanjit brought her to Imphal in a flight on March 21 and took her to Uchiwa.

On reaching Sanjit's home at Uchiwa Awang Leikai, it was learnt Sanjit was a married man.

One aunt of Sanjit told Rina that she (Rina) was the fifth girl Sanjit had brought home as his wife.

Sanjit had also settled the cases of three girls after paying compensation.

Thereafter, Sanjit kept Rina at his home without ever performing any religious rituals related with marriage.

It was also not disclosed to the locality that Sanjit took Rina as his wife.

Even as Rina narrated her whole ordeal, nobody paid any attention to her story.

Her repeated pleading to inform her family at Jiribam too fell in deaf ears.

As time went by, Rina became pregnant and her abductor-husband was arrested by police.

Thoudem Sanjit s/o Th Manihar of Uchiwa Awang Leikai was imprisoned for six months.

On the other hand, Rina's family and relatives searched all over Jiribam and elsewhere since the day she was abducted.

As they could not find the Rina, her father even accused Ngangbi of selling off the minor girl.

Ngangbi, mother of seven children was ousted from her home by her husband on the charge of selling off Rina.

After she was ousted from her own home, Ngangbi took refuge in the house of a distant relative who ran a rice hotel at Jiribam.

She showed photographs of Rina to all those people who came to the hotel and asked every day if they ever came across the girl.

One day, a man from Uchiwa identified the photograph and said that the girl was in Uchiwa.

Ngangbi and the hotel owner came to Imphal and sent other people to Uchiwa to find the missing girl.

They also filed a complaint at the Manipur State Commission for Women.

Members of the commission went to Uchiwa following which the whole story of the bestial crime came into light.

The Social Welfare Director rescued Rina and issued an order to keep Rina in a women's shelter at Imphal.

However, because of the advanced stage of her pregnancy, Rina could not kept in the shelter.

Rina gave birth to a son on October 31 at RIMS.

Currently she is staying at her aunt's home at Sagolband.

In view of the fact that Rina is now mother of Sanjit's son, the commission directed Sanjit and Rina to unite together in matrimony.

However, the same directive of the commission was not acceptable to both Rina and Ngangbi.

Subsequently, they filed a complaint with the Judicial Magistrate First Class, Imphal West.

It was perusing the complaint that the Court directed to Mayang Imphal Police to investigate into the case and submit a report by November 16 .

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