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held for assault on 2 Manipuri women
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DELHI: A
day after TOI reported about two Manipuri women being ridiculed and physically
abused in public by a group of men in Kotla Mubarakpur on January 25, police
arrested an accused on Sunday.
He has been charged with molestation and voluntarily causing hurt, while a case under Prevention of Atrocities against SC and STs has been added to the complaint.
Delhi Police sources, however, denied it was a 'hate crime', and termed it a case of molestation and assault on women.
The victims, Tharmila Jajo and Chonmila, were beaten up after one of them kicked a dog in panic as its leash was entangled in her boot. The women insist the leash was tied to the boot on purpose while the cops say it probably got stuck accidentally.
The victims' statement was recorded only on Sunday, after the TOI report. "This tells a lot about the way police treat cases of persecution against people of the northeast," said 25-year old Tharmila. The cops maintain there was no negligence on their part.
"We have taken appropriate action immediately after the case was registered at the police station," said a police spokesperson, adding that it took time for investigators to identify the accused.
The Manipuri women, however, say the cops did not act on their complaint till TOI raised the issue. "We didn't know the perpetrators' names but we recognize them. The cops never asked us to identify the men and they were roaming free in the neighborhood," said Chonmila, who works at a local mall.
The arrested man has been identified as Prem Chand, 32, a jobless resident of Kotla Mubarakpur, where the assault took place. He is the owner of the dog allegedly kicked by one of the women.
Police said apparently the dog's leash accidently slipped from the hands of the owner. As the dog ran, its leash entangled itself around the foot of the woman. The cops added that they are yet to fully verify this versions.
The victims ruled out the possibility of the leash getting stuck by accident. "How can a leash get into my boots on its own? The dog owner tied the leash in my boot and they laughed their heads off when I panicked. When I kicked the dog away as it would've bitten me, the men slapped and started punching," said Chonmila.
Senior police officials said that another person, possibly a juvenile, has also been identified to be involved in the incident. "We are probing the involvement of others," said an officer. He added that statements of the two women and three men assaulted along with them were recorded on Sunday.
The women said the incident took place around 9.30pm on January 25 while a police case was registered only the next morning. "We sat in the police station from 10.30pm till 6 in the morning. It was after the northeast associations called up joint commissioner of police, Robin Hibu, that an FIR was registered," said Phungreingam Jajo, a friend of the women, who was also beaten up.
~ Times of India, New Delhi, Feb 03, 2014
Modi slams attacks on northeasterners in Delhi
MEERUT: Reacting to the dominant news in the media over the last couple of days, BJP's prime ministerial nominee on Sunday made a passionate pitch for integrating the people of the north-eastern states into the mainstream. He slammed the Centre for the fatal attack on the Arunachal Pradesh student and the harassment of Manipuri girls in Delhi last week and described these as shameful incidents that fly in the face of Delhi's aspirational tag of a global city.
Saying these attacks took place under Congress president Sonia Gandhi's watch who is the real force behind the government, Modi, extolling the Indianness of the people of Arunachal Pradesh, said, "While we greet each other with namaste and Ram Ram, the people of Arunachal Pradesh greet each other with Jai Hind. If a youth from such a state is killed in Delhi, it's a matter of shame."
Tharmila Jajo and Chonmila, two Manipur women, were subjected to racial abuses in Delhi on January 25. Chonmila, who works in a mall, had gone to a shop managed by Tharmila to buy some Manipuri herbs. On seeing them, one of the goons who abused them tied his dog's leash to Chonmila's shoes and laughed when she panicked.
"Whenever I hear that people from Manipur and North-east don't get houses on rent, I feel sad... Like all others, they're also our children and related to us through blood. It's our duty to protect them," Modi said.
Without naming the Aam Aadmi Party, Modi said the language used by some of the leaders in Delhi these days is deplorable. "My head bows down in shame when I hear some of the comments," he said.
Interestingly, Modi chose not to describe Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi as "shehzade", instead, he referred to him as "man-niye Rahul". Earlier, Congress leader Janardhan Dwivedi had dared Modi to repeat this epithet for Rahul, saying the Youth Congress won't allow him to carry out his political rallies if he didn't stop name-calling. But Modi continued calling Rahul "shehzade" until his Meerut rally.
~ Times of India, New Delhi, Feb 3, 2014
2 Manipuri women assaulted in Delhi, complain of police apathy
New
Delhi, February 2, 2014, DHNS: Two women from Manipur have alleged that
they were assaulted by a group of men in Kotla Mubarakpur in south Delhi a few
days ago. The women, who said the men also made racist remarks, accused the
police of delay in filing an FIR.
Police denied any reluctance on their part, saying they had booked the accused for assault and acts that intends to insult the modesty of a woman on the same day of the incident—January 24. Further sections were added on January 29.
One of the accused, who is said to have led the assault, was arrested on Sunday.
The assault came to light after a young student from Arunachal Pradesh was beaten up by some shopkeepers in Lajpat Nagar, leading to his death.
Chonmila, one of the Manipuri victims, said that at 9:30 pm on January 24, she had gone to buy some herbs from a local grocery shop managed by her friend Tharmila Jajo.
She said some “local goons passed racist remarks” at her and one of them tied the leash of a pet dog to her boot.
“She panicked and in self-defence aimed a kick towards the dog. One of them (the goons) informed the dog’s owner, who came with his friends and began assaulting her, saying that she had kicked his dog,” said Sorinthan Haorei, secretary, Tangkhul Students Union, Delhi.
“The public watched, but three young men from her community came to her aid. The goons assaulted all of them and even pulled Jajo over her store’s counter. The men were passing lewd and racist comments all the while,” said the students’ union secretary.
He said when the girls approached the police, they were reluctant to file an FIR. “They called up some north-east association members, who then rang Joint Commissioner of Police Robin Hibu. The officer gave instructions to file the FIR. We received the FIR copy at 6:30 am the next day,” said Haorei.The police, who have also booked the accused under the SC/ST Act, said they acted swiftly.
~ Deccan Chronicle, New Delhi, Feb 3, 2013
1 held for Manipuri girls’ assault
The Delhi police has arrested the man accused of assaulting two Manipuri women on January 24 in South Delhi.
The incident was highlighted after the mysterious death of 19-year-old Nido Taniam, son of an Arunachal Pradesh MLA, after a group of men had beaten him up on Wednesday.
The to Manipuri women in their complaint had
alleged that one of the accused had tied leash of his dog to her boots, because
of which she panicked and tried to kick the dog.
Seeing this, a group of men started beating
her up. When victim’s friend tried to intervene she was also thrashed. She also
alleged that the attackers also made racial comments and no one came to their
help.
Prem Chand, who was arrested by the Delhi
police on Sunday, was the owner of the dog whose leash was allegedly tied to
one of the victim’s legs. Prem Chand works as a tailor in Kotla Mubarakpur area
whereas his father Nanak Chand owns a shop in the vicinity.
The two women had alleged in their complaint
that the police didn’t take appropriate action and was reluctant to register a
case.
However, the Delhi police refuted these
allegations. “The incident had taken place on January 24 and the police
registered a case under sections 323, 353, 509/34 of the Indian Police Code the
same day after conducting their medical check-up. After that on the basis of a
supplementary statement, sections 354, 394, 427 and SC/ST Act were added to the
FIR on January 29,” Delhi police PRO Rajan Bhagat said on Sunday.
The police had taken time in arresting the
accused as his identification was being confirmed, he added.
The police is looking for the remaining
culprits and more arrests are likely to follow. “We are interrogating Prem
Chand and have some leads. There could be more arrests by tomorrow,” a senior
police officer added.
The victim was on Sunday called by the cops
to the Lodhi Colony police station to record her statement and was then taken
to the Kotla Mubarakpur police station for the identification of the accused.
~The Asian Age, New Delhi, Feb 3, 2014
He has been charged with molestation and voluntarily causing hurt, while a case under Prevention of Atrocities against SC and STs has been added to the complaint.
Delhi Police sources, however, denied it was a 'hate crime', and termed it a case of molestation and assault on women.
The victims, Tharmila Jajo and Chonmila, were beaten up after one of them kicked a dog in panic as its leash was entangled in her boot. The women insist the leash was tied to the boot on purpose while the cops say it probably got stuck accidentally.
The victims' statement was recorded only on Sunday, after the TOI report. "This tells a lot about the way police treat cases of persecution against people of the northeast," said 25-year old Tharmila. The cops maintain there was no negligence on their part.
"We have taken appropriate action immediately after the case was registered at the police station," said a police spokesperson, adding that it took time for investigators to identify the accused.
The Manipuri women, however, say the cops did not act on their complaint till TOI raised the issue. "We didn't know the perpetrators' names but we recognize them. The cops never asked us to identify the men and they were roaming free in the neighborhood," said Chonmila, who works at a local mall.
The arrested man has been identified as Prem Chand, 32, a jobless resident of Kotla Mubarakpur, where the assault took place. He is the owner of the dog allegedly kicked by one of the women.
Police said apparently the dog's leash accidently slipped from the hands of the owner. As the dog ran, its leash entangled itself around the foot of the woman. The cops added that they are yet to fully verify this versions.
The victims ruled out the possibility of the leash getting stuck by accident. "How can a leash get into my boots on its own? The dog owner tied the leash in my boot and they laughed their heads off when I panicked. When I kicked the dog away as it would've bitten me, the men slapped and started punching," said Chonmila.
Senior police officials said that another person, possibly a juvenile, has also been identified to be involved in the incident. "We are probing the involvement of others," said an officer. He added that statements of the two women and three men assaulted along with them were recorded on Sunday.
The women said the incident took place around 9.30pm on January 25 while a police case was registered only the next morning. "We sat in the police station from 10.30pm till 6 in the morning. It was after the northeast associations called up joint commissioner of police, Robin Hibu, that an FIR was registered," said Phungreingam Jajo, a friend of the women, who was also beaten up.
~ Times of India, New Delhi, Feb 03, 2014
Modi slams attacks on northeasterners in Delhi
MEERUT: Reacting to the dominant news in the media over the last couple of days, BJP's prime ministerial nominee on Sunday made a passionate pitch for integrating the people of the north-eastern states into the mainstream. He slammed the Centre for the fatal attack on the Arunachal Pradesh student and the harassment of Manipuri girls in Delhi last week and described these as shameful incidents that fly in the face of Delhi's aspirational tag of a global city.
Saying these attacks took place under Congress president Sonia Gandhi's watch who is the real force behind the government, Modi, extolling the Indianness of the people of Arunachal Pradesh, said, "While we greet each other with namaste and Ram Ram, the people of Arunachal Pradesh greet each other with Jai Hind. If a youth from such a state is killed in Delhi, it's a matter of shame."
Tharmila Jajo and Chonmila, two Manipur women, were subjected to racial abuses in Delhi on January 25. Chonmila, who works in a mall, had gone to a shop managed by Tharmila to buy some Manipuri herbs. On seeing them, one of the goons who abused them tied his dog's leash to Chonmila's shoes and laughed when she panicked.
"Whenever I hear that people from Manipur and North-east don't get houses on rent, I feel sad... Like all others, they're also our children and related to us through blood. It's our duty to protect them," Modi said.
Without naming the Aam Aadmi Party, Modi said the language used by some of the leaders in Delhi these days is deplorable. "My head bows down in shame when I hear some of the comments," he said.
Interestingly, Modi chose not to describe Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi as "shehzade", instead, he referred to him as "man-niye Rahul". Earlier, Congress leader Janardhan Dwivedi had dared Modi to repeat this epithet for Rahul, saying the Youth Congress won't allow him to carry out his political rallies if he didn't stop name-calling. But Modi continued calling Rahul "shehzade" until his Meerut rally.
~ Times of India, New Delhi, Feb 3, 2014
2 Manipuri women assaulted in Delhi, complain of police apathy
Police denied any reluctance on their part, saying they had booked the accused for assault and acts that intends to insult the modesty of a woman on the same day of the incident—January 24. Further sections were added on January 29.
One of the accused, who is said to have led the assault, was arrested on Sunday.
The assault came to light after a young student from Arunachal Pradesh was beaten up by some shopkeepers in Lajpat Nagar, leading to his death.
Chonmila, one of the Manipuri victims, said that at 9:30 pm on January 24, she had gone to buy some herbs from a local grocery shop managed by her friend Tharmila Jajo.
She said some “local goons passed racist remarks” at her and one of them tied the leash of a pet dog to her boot.
“She panicked and in self-defence aimed a kick towards the dog. One of them (the goons) informed the dog’s owner, who came with his friends and began assaulting her, saying that she had kicked his dog,” said Sorinthan Haorei, secretary, Tangkhul Students Union, Delhi.
“The public watched, but three young men from her community came to her aid. The goons assaulted all of them and even pulled Jajo over her store’s counter. The men were passing lewd and racist comments all the while,” said the students’ union secretary.
He said when the girls approached the police, they were reluctant to file an FIR. “They called up some north-east association members, who then rang Joint Commissioner of Police Robin Hibu. The officer gave instructions to file the FIR. We received the FIR copy at 6:30 am the next day,” said Haorei.The police, who have also booked the accused under the SC/ST Act, said they acted swiftly.
~ Deccan Chronicle, New Delhi, Feb 3, 2013
1 held for Manipuri girls’ assault
The Delhi police has arrested the man accused of assaulting two Manipuri women on January 24 in South Delhi.
The incident was highlighted after the mysterious death of 19-year-old Nido Taniam, son of an Arunachal Pradesh MLA, after a group of men had beaten him up on Wednesday.
~The Asian Age, New Delhi, Feb 3, 2014
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