Imphal, January 25: After more than one month of the incident, the long hands of the law has finally caught up with a landlord accused in the molestation of a minor girl from Manipur at Gurgaon in December last year, of course, after the media exerted pressure and a complaint was lodged through India's first lady IPS officer Kiran Bedi.

With Haryana Police initially refusing to lodge a complaint, the accused landlord identified as Bikram had been remaining scot-free.

A case was registered against the culprit only after the matter was taken up to the higher authority.

Expressing unhappiness over the manner of handling the case by Gurgaon police, North East Support Centre and Helpline, which is fighting for the cause of the hapless students and other people from North East, lodged a complaint through IPS officer Kiran Bedi.

Consequently, the office of the Commissioner of Police Gurgaon informed the North East Support Centre and Helpline about the arrest of the accused landlord on January 14 this year.

A team of mediapersons from CNN-IBN had also reportedly done their part in exerting pressure on the Gurgaon police to act and flashed the news judiciously.

According to spokesperson of North East Support Centre and Helpline Modhuchandra, the victim is yet to recover from the trauma of repeated molestations by the landlord.

The victim, a minor girl, was staying along with her elder sister at Gurgaon who operates a beauty parlour to support the education of her younger sister and another younger brother.

After the incident, all three of them were chased out from their rented house by the landlord.

As to the incident of molestation of two sisters from Manipur by hooligans numbering about 25 at Gandhi Vihar on January 5, Modhuchandra informed that so far 14 of the accused have been arrested and they would be produced before the Court on Monday (January 28) .

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