Manipur Violence LIVE Updates: Women burn house of accused, all 4 sent to 11-day police custody
Manipur Violence LIVE News Updates: Tension escalated in Manipur's hills as a video of May 4 emerged on social media, showing men from one community parading two women naked from the opposing side.On of the survivor, who luckily escaped, said. “When we resisted, they told me: ‘If you don’t take off your clothes, we will kill you’, Then as she obeyed them to “protect herself", the men allegedly slapped and punched her.She added that the men dragged to a paddy field near the road and asked her to “lie down" there.
“I did as they told me, and three men surrounded me… One of them told the other, ‘let’s rape her."Meanwhile, Police registered main suspect, Heradas (32), has been arrested in Thoubal district. And CM Biren Singh promised to take strict action against the accused.Stay with LiveMint to catch LIVE updates on the Manipur violence news.Days after three women were paraded naked and sexually assaulted by a mob of men in Manipur, prompting arrests and uproar across the country, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and asked if the incident hurt him.Read more hereWomen hit on walls of house of the accused in viral Manipur video case, in Pechi Awang Leikai, Manipur, India, July 20, 2023, in this screengrab obtained from a Handout video.Manipur News Live: Writers, filmmakers, journalists, activists and politicians joined hands in staging a protest in the Odisha capital on Friday against the naked parading of two women in ethnic strife-torn Manipur.Narendra Mohanty, convenor of the rally, said that even passersby joined their agitation.At least four persons have been arrested for parading three women of Kuki naked and allegedly gang-raping one of them in Manipur’s Thoubal amid the
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