IMPHAL, July 1 MNS NNN: Manipur police has started grilling the four arrested Indian Reserved Battalion (IRB) personnel for posting a video of a couple having sex at the restricted Khuga Dam in Manipur south district Churachandpur.
Deputy Chief Minister of Manipur Gaikhangam today told the state assembly that the police have started taking action against the four personnel of India Reserved Battalion (IRB) involved in a sex tape video scandal in Churachandpur district .
Mob stormed into the Churachandpur police station yesterday demanding the four arrested IRB personnel to be handed over to them.
The married couple were having private moment in the restricted area last month when the IRB personnel reportedly caught them after taking the video through their mobile phones. Later, the video was posted on the internet.
On Monday, Gaikhangam said a case has already been registered with the Churachandpur District Police Station against the four IRB personnel in connection with the incident after being placing them under suspension before taking into custody.He said, “They are now being grilled by the police.”
They will not be spared if found guilty by the law.
He described the incident as a criminal act that was seemingly intentional.
After the video was found uploaded on the social networking sites, angry local residents of Churachandpur town stormed the district police station and attempted to torch it on June 30. But the police defused the situation by using heavy tear gas shells to quell the protesters.
The security force personnel were identified as Th Chaoba Singh, 47 of Khonghanbi, Thoubal; Ningthoujam Dokendro, 43 of Shyam Chirag Mayai Leikai; T Sonlian Tungdim, 26 of Mata; and Nengsuanmung, 35 of Sahei Road New Lamka.
Gaikhangam said it was a dastardly act and we all should condemn it. He appealed to help in restoring peace at Churachandpur.
UNA adds the Naga People’s Front stated that it would be wise of the Home Minister to accept moral responsibility as the state sponsored violence that was witnessed yesterday (June 30) at Churachandpur and tender his resignation for the sake of justice and for honoring the Country’s democratic principles.
That, the conduct of IRB personnel in capturing a couple fully in nude and disseminating the clip is telling enough of the degrading morale within the state forces. And the subsequent events of unleashing bullets on the general public by the state police substantiate it all the more.
That, nothing less than the resignation of the state Home Minister would justify the bullet wounds suffered by four (4) youths, one of which is still in a very critical condition, and the hell of bullets that was rained upon the public in the name of controlling a mob added the press release.
Police high-handedness of the state made its ugly appearance at a time when it is least expected a time when the people had tasted a sense of peace after embroiling under decades of insurgency.
It is heart wrecking to witness that the people are far from foregoing the bullets unleashed from the state’s barrel stated the release.
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