OUTRAGE OVER WOMEN PARADED NAKED IN MANIPUR GRIPS NATION

Hitting out at the govt, Cong general secretary said the pm had broken his silence on Manipur but it was ‘too little too late’

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The assault and humiliation of two women paraded naked in a Manipur village in May sparked nationwide outrage on Thursday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying the incident had shamed 140 crore Indians and the Supreme Court terming it “simply unacceptable”.

As the two women were catapulted to the centre stage of national attention with a 26-second video of the 4 May mob violence in Manipur’s Senapati district going viral, opposition parties joined in the debate and disrupted Parliament proceedings. Police in the northeast state arrested one of the main accused who is prominently seen in the clip and alleged to be the mastermind.

Officials said several police teams had been formed immediately after the video of the incident surfaced on Wednesday and the first arrest in the case was made in Thoubal district. A case of abduction, gang rape and murder against unidentified armed persons has been registered.

The law, stressed the prime minister, will act with its full might and no guilty will be spared.

“My heart is full of pain and anger,” Modi told reporters in his first remarks on the ethnic violence in the northeast state amid criticism by opposition parties for not speaking.