Manipur police record victims’ statements of parade incident
Manipur Police has got in touch with the two women, who were paraded naked in May and then sexually assaulted, and was in the process of recording their statement, officials said here on Friday.
They said keeping in mind the situation arising out of ethnic clashes that broke out in the state on May 4, a team of women officials and personnel from Manipur police was formed to probe the case.
The officials said the team had met the family members as well as the two women and the process of recording their statements has begun.
The process of identifying eyewitnesses and recording their statement has also begun, they added.
According to top government sources in New Delhi, the cases pertaining to the sexual assault was likely to be handed over to the CBI. Reacting to the arrest of people in the viral video case, spokesperson of the Indigenous Tribal Leaders Forum (ITLF) Ginza Vualzong termed it “too little, too late”.
“I would have appreciated it if the culprits were arrested before the video went viral. The FIR was registered on May 18. There are many more such cases. Having said that I would also like to clarify that arresting people would not solve the larger issues of the state which has been witnessing ethnic clashes. ”
I request the Centre to take the Manipur issue seriously and take steps to end the violence and come up with a solution,” he said.