Women Paraded, Raped In Manipur Were Driven To Mob By Cops: CBI Chargesheet
NDTV
The chargesheet was filed in October but details have emerged a few days before the anniversary of the start of the violence in Manipur.
In a shocking charge, the CBI has alleged that personnel from the Manipur Police allegedly drove the two women to a mob of around 1,000 people, which stripped and paraded them before they were gang-raped, in an incident that shook the nation. The crime, which occurred on May 4 last year - just a day after ethnic violence broke out between the Meiteis and the Kukis - had come to light after videos began being circulated in July.
In its chargesheet filed in October, which has come to light a few days before the anniversary of the start of the violence, the central agency has also said that the mob had attacked a third woman belonging to the same family and tried to strip her, but failed because she was holding on tightly to her young granddaughter.
She managed to escape the clutches of the mob after the group attacking her went towards the first two survivors - one in her 40s and the other in her 20s - who were being attacked in some paddy fields.
