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IMPHAL, June 23: The JAC formed against the alleged kidnap and rape of a 17 year old girl from Yairipok Changamdabi Mathak Leikai alongwith several student organization of the state called a press conference at Manipur Press Club today regarding the incident.
Ayuv Kori, JAC convenor alleged that the student was kidnapped by unidentified persons on June 19, 2013 when she left home at around 11:30 am to get admission forms from the Yairipok Universal College.
Further he alleged that after kidnapping her, she was raped and later dropped near the gate of her residence on June 20, 2013 around 12:30 am.
The JAC along with the local MLA, Thounaojam Shyamkumar Singh met Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh and demanded arrest of the culprit(s) at the earliest and also submitted memorandum to the Chief Minister Okram Ibobi today, he said.
He further said that Chief Minister assured the JAC members that within two days the culprits will be arrested.
He continued that in case the government failed to take up actions and bring justice to the girl at the earliest, the JAC along with the student organizations of the state will initiate different forms of agitations.
While lamenting the incident, he said crime against women has increased manifold in the state.
The girls is in a trauma and is presently admitted at the Public Hospital, Hatta, he continued.
Newmai News Network adds: The joint meeting of all Manipur Women Organisation today demanded that justice be brought to the 68 year old woman who was raped on June 17 by a 25 years old at K Somrei village of Ukhrul district within 3 months` time.
Taking a five-point resolution, today`s meeting demanded that the culprit should be given a fitting punishment by the authority concerned. The meeting further demanded that adequate compensation be given to the victim and rehabilitated by the authority concerned. Today`s women organisations then demanded that the government create a safe environment for the fairer sex. The meeting finally asked that all the pending cases related to molestation or rape be expedited. On June 19, a 25-year-old man raped a 68-year-old tribal woman and robbed off her money at the village of K Somrei under Yairipok Police Station in Ukhrul district of Manipur.
Alphonsa (not real name), the victim while talking to reporters here said that Mohammad Sanayai of Mayai Leikai in Thoubal district, sexually assaulted her in a paddy field on June 17. She disclosed this to the media outside the Forensic Science, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Imphal where she had come for medical examination in connection with the incident.
The accused had also robbed her of Rs 9000 after the rape, she had further alleged.
Md Sanayai had been taken into custody of the Yairipok Police Station
Meanwhile, The Southern Tangkhul Naga Baptist Association (STNBA), Yairipok has today issued a press statement condemning the alleged rape of 68 years old Tangkhul women on June 17, 2013 at 2:00 pm while she was working on her jhuming field by one Md Sanayai of Mayaikeithel.
It is further said that the Christian Forum of Southern Tangkhul Naga Baptist Association badly condemned such inhuman act as it is an assault to humanity and dampen the spirit of living togetherness while appealing to all concerned authority to take appropriate action to the culprit and also to look in the matter clearly so as to solve the problem without delay, said it.
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