Manipur: Kuki women who were sexually assaulted did not get police help, alleges CBI chargesheet

The two Kuki women who were sexually assaulted and paraded naked in Manipur in May last year did not get any help from the police when they were accosted by a mob, according to a chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation, reported The New Indian Express.

The women were among three who were sexually assaulted in the B Phainom village of the Kangpokpi district on May 4, a day after clashes erupted between Meitei and Kuki communities in the northeastern state. One of the women was “brutally gang-raped”, according to a police complaint.

The CBI chargesheet said that on May 4, two of the women and two male victims of the violence had managed to get into a police vehicle in an attempt to escape the mob. However, when they asked the driver to start the vehicle, they were told that there was no key, according to the chargesheet.

The central agency said that besides the driver, two police officials were inside the vehicle and three to four officials were outside it. The Kuki women and the two men “kept on begging the policemen repeatedly to help them” and to save a man from being assaulted by the mob, but the officials did not assist them, the chargesheet said, according to...

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