Probe underway in nude women parading case: Police
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, July 19 2023:
With reference to a viral video of two women paraded naked by a group of armed miscreants, which supposedly took place on May 4, the police informed that a case has already been registered and investigation started.
According to statement of police control room, a case of abduction, gang-rape and murder has already been registered at Nongpok Sekmai PS in connection with the incident of May 4.Investigation has started and all-out efforts are being made to identify and book the perpetrators at the earliest.
On the other hand, the statement informed that police and central security forces conducted search operations in fringe areas of both valley and hill districts on Wednesday during which two arms with magazines were recovered by Imphal East district police.
Meanwhile, The Wire reported that a video circulating on social media shows two Kuki women paraded naked by a mob at B Phainom village in Kangpokpi district on May 4 .
One of the women was gang-raped, the first information report (FIR) filed in connection with the incident.
The video shows several men walking alongside the two women as they are led into some fields.
The video shows at least some of the men groping the women.
A zero FIR was filed by Saikul police, in Kangpokpi district, on May 18.It was forwarded to the Nongpok Sekmai police station, The Wire has learnt.
While an FIR is usually restricted by jurisdiction, a zero FIR can be filed in any police station.
After registering the Zero FIR, the police station transfers it to the one that has the jurisdiction - which is then supposed to convert it into a regular FIR.
The Zero FIR has charges of rape and murder
against "unknown miscreants" numbering "800-1,000" .
The mob is accused of burning down houses in the village, and accosting a group of five people who were fleeing.
There were two men and three women in the group.
One of the men was killed immediately by the mob, which then forced all the women to strip.
The Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum (ITLF), an umbrella body of tribal groups, said the "horrifying ordeal suffered by these innocent women is amplified by the perpetrators' decision to share the video, which shows the identity of the victims, on social media".
It vehemently condemned the sickening act and demanded that the Union and state governments, apart from statutory bodies like the National Commission for Women, should take cognizance of the, offence and take all necessary measures to bring justice to the culprits.