Supreme Court summons DGP for the next hearing on August 7 in Manipur violence case

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that the DGP of Manipur shall remain present before the court for the next hearing on Monday at 2 pm and be in a position to answer the court. Having called as «deeply disturbing» the video of two women being paraded naked in Manipur, SC also said there was a long delay in registering the FIR in connection with the incident. Tension had soared in Manipur, tormented by unabated ethnic violence, after a May 4 video surfaced last week that showed two women from one of the warring communities being paraded naked by a mob from the other side. «One thing is very clear that there is long delay in registering FIR in video case,» a bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud remarked orally. At the outset, the Manipur government told the bench it has lodged 6,523 FIRs after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur in May.

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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre and the Manipur government, told the top court that Manipur police have arrested seven people, including a juvenile, in the video case. It appears that the state police recorded the statement of women after video surfaced, Mehta told the bench. Solicitor General informed SC that 250 arrests have been made and 12,000 arrests have been done preventive measures. SC pulled up the government and asked whether policemen who handed over women to mob were questioned by state police. The court asked, «If law and order machinery cannot protect people what happens to citizens?» Mehta told the a bench the state police lodged 'zero' FIR in the case of parading the two women naked.

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