NEW DELHI: The Manipur Police personnel allegedly drove the 2 ladies from the Kuki-Zomi group, who had sought refuge of their official gypsy, to a mob of round 1,000 Meiti rioters in Kangpokpi district, the CBI cost sheet has mentioned. The two ladies had been subsequently stripped bare and paraded earlier than being sexually assaulted throughout the ethnic violence within the state, the cost sheet added.
The ladies, one in all whom was the spouse of a Kargil struggle veteran, desperately requested the police personnel to drive them to a protected location however had been allegedly advised by them that “there was no key” (of the automobile) and didn’t present any assist, the officers giving particulars of the cost sheet mentioned. A video displaying two ladies being paraded bare surrounded by a mob of males went viral final yr in July, practically two months after the ethnic violence broke on May 4.
The CBI filed its cost sheet in opposition to six accused and a report in opposition to one Child in Conflict with the Law (CCL) earlier than the Special Judge, CBI Court at Guwahati on October 16 final yr. It has alleged that the 2 ladies had been working away from a mob of round 900-1,000 individuals carrying refined weapons like AK rifles, SLR, INSAS and .303 rifles.
The mob had forcefully entered their village in Kangpokpi district, about 68 km south of Saikul police station, it mentioned. The ladies, together with different victims, bumped into the forest to flee from the mob however had been noticed by the rioters who had separated the victims. Some members of the mob advised the ladies to succeed in the police automobile parked on the roadside to hunt assist, officers within the know of the event mentioned.
The two ladies managed to get contained in the automobile, during which two police personnel and the driving force had been sitting. Three to 4 personnel had been outdoors the automobile. One of the male victims, who additionally managed to make his approach contained in the automobile, saved pleading with the driving force to drive them to a protected place however was advised “there was no key”.
The husband of one of many victims had served the Indian Army as a subedar of the Assam Regiment. The police additionally didn’t assist the daddy of the person sitting within the automobile from being assaulted by the mob, the CBI alleged. Later, the driving force of the police gypsy drove the automobile in the direction of a mob of round 1,000 individuals and stopped it in entrance of them. The victims desperately requested the police personnel to drive them to security, however no assist was supplied to them.
The mob had already killed the daddy of one of many male victims who was sitting within the gypsy together with the 2 ladies, the company has mentioned. The violent mob got here in the direction of the gypsy when the police personnel fled from the scene, leaving the victims on the mercy of the group. The rioters dragged the ladies out, stripped them of their garments and paraded them bare earlier than sexually assaulting them, the cost sheet has mentioned.
The CBI has cost sheeted Huirem Herodas Meitei, who was nabbed by Manipur police in July, and 5 others, and a report has been filed in opposition to a juvenile. The accused have been charged underneath numerous sections of the Indian Penal Code, together with these pertaining to gang rape, homicide, outraging the modesty of a girl and prison conspiracy, the CBI has mentioned.
