IMPHAL, Oct 25 MNS NNN: outraged at the recent rape of a student of Tamphasana Girls Higher Secondary School on Monday last— reportedly by the driver of Imphal West Police, identified as William along with
Manipur digital film actor, Thongam Tarun at Tampha, a restaurant, located at Ghari, Airport Road —students of the school took out a sin-in-protest at the school gate.
In the protest, students also stopped vehicles plying in front of the Raj Bhavan for about 15 minutes. However, Deputy Superintendent of police, Ibomcha intervened and took control of the situation.
Around 5 student leaders later submitted a memorandum to Manipur Home Minister, Gaikhangam with the ultimatum that the government should give adequate punishment to the culprits within a deadline of 5 days from the date of submission, and help the victim in all possible ways. Bidyarani, General Secretary of TG Higher Secondary School Students’ Union said that if the state government fails to take up necessary actions against the culprits within the stipulated deadline, they would be compelled to launch another agitation until the demand s of the students are met.
The general secretary of TG higher secondary School Student’s Union, asked the government through the media, whether the culprits would be given bail and set free from jail or, whether the government should follow the usual norm of letting the state security force and the accused go scot-free without taking any tangible and stringent measure worth its name.
Meanwhile, the Joint Co-Ordination Committee (JSCC), an apex body of six students organizations –Manipuri Students Federation (MSF), Democratic students Alliance of Manipur (DESAM), All Manipur Students Union (AMSU), Students Welfare Association of Kangleipak (SWAK), Kangleipak Students Association (KSA) and Students Union of Kangleipak (SUK) — condemned the burgeoning incidents of rapes and crimes committed against young girls recently and strongly urged for justice, appropriate punishment and capital punishment to all culprits as deterrent measure in the light of the recent development of unprecedented violence and rapes unleashed against women, especially, the Khoupum rape case, rape and killing of Catherine at Chandel district and the TG Higher Secondary school’s victim.
At a press conference at the Democratic Students Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) office, Keishampat, Imphal today, Convener of JSCC Longjam Umakanta told media persons that no appropriate action has been initiated against the victims so far in the past and henceforth, called for exemplary appropriate capital punishment to those guilty as the only option left for delivery of justice in the present context where the judiciary and the law enforcing agencies are taken for granted as the whims and fancy of the culprits are carried out through the power they wield from their influential position.
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