NEW DELHI: The Manipur Police personnel allegedly drove the 2 girls from the Kuki-Zomi neighborhood, 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 2 girls had been subsequently stripped bare and paraded earlier than being sexually assaulted through 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 secure location however had been allegedly advised by them that “there was no key” (of the car) and didn’t present any. assist, the officers giving particulars of the cost sheet mentioned. A video exhibiting two girls being paraded bare surrounded by a mob of males went viral final 12 months in July, almost two months after the ethnic violence broke on Might 4.
The CBI filed its cost sheet in opposition to six accused and a report in opposition to one Little one in Battle with the Legislation (CCL) earlier than the Particular Choose, CBI Court docket at Guwahati on October 16 final 12 months. It has alleged that the 2 girls 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 car parked on the roadside to hunt assist, officers within the know of the event mentioned.
The 2 girls managed to get contained in the car, during which two police personnel and the motive force had been sitting. Three to 4 personnel had been exterior the car. One of many male victims, who additionally managed to make his means contained in the car, saved pleading with the motive force to drive them to a secure place however was advised “there was no key”.
The husband of one of many victims had served the Indian Military as a subedar of the Assam Regiment. The police additionally didn’t assist the daddy of the person sitting within the car from being assaulted by the mob, the CBI alleged. Later, the motive force of the police gypsy drove the car 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 offered 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 girls, 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 beneath varied sections of the Indian Penal Code, together with these pertaining to gang rape, homicide, outraging the modesty of a lady and prison conspiracy, the CBI has mentioned.
