Manipur News: ‘When I finally managed to get up…’, Meitei woman files ‘Zero FIR’ alleging gang-rape on 3 May
Manipur state to speak up if they were victims of sexual harassment. Amid surging reports of sexual crimes that took place amid the macabre dance of death that entailed what now seems like a barbaric scene, a 37 year old woman has complained to Manipur police alleging that she had been gang-raped by Kuki men, when she was trying to flee her burning house with her two sons, niece and sister-in-law, NDTV reported. The woman from the Churachandpur district in Manipur alleged that she was fleeing her home when a group of men caught hold of her while her sister-in-law kept running with her sons, and niece, the media outlet reported.
The incident came to focus when the woman filed a 'zero FIR' filed with Bishnupur police station on Wednesday. She claimed that she was gang-raped by a group of men on 3 May, the day ethnic violence broke out between Kuki Zo and Meitei communities over the granting of Schedule led Tribe status to the latter indigenous community. According to NDTV, the woman who is now living in a relief camp filed the Zero FIR in the Bishnupur Police station on 9 August, over three months after the incident.
The FIR states that, on 3 May at 6.30 pm, miscreants started burning the woman and her neighbour's houses, after which she, her two sons, niece and sister-in-law ran as fast as they could, NDTV reported. "I carried my niece on my back and also held my two sons and started running from the spot along with my sister-in-law. She was also carrying a baby on her back and running ahead of me.
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