Barely two hours after three Kuki women were stripped, paraded naked, assaulted, one of them gang-raped, and her father and brother murdered by a mob in B Phainom village in Thoubal district of Manipur on May 4, a police team visited the village but left because "they did not see any loss of human life", police records accessed by HT show.
The police described the situation in the village as "calm" as it found no accused at the spot, showed a reading of FIR (6) (5) 2023 said, filed by the Nonpok Sekmai police station the jurisdiction in which B Phainom village was located.
HT analysed the contents of two FIRs that the Nonpok Sekmai police station filed on its own - or suo motu - on May 4, and the contents, taken together, paint a picture that leaves many questions, and strengthens reports from people in the Kuki community, who have said they were apprehensive of approaching police for fair action since most happened to be of the Meitei community.
It is these two communities that have clashed since May 3, leading to at least 150 deaths in an episode that many fear to have played out much worse than what is known.
One of those horrific details that has since emerged was captured in a video posted online on Wednesday and showed two women being paraded naked and groped, within minutes of their male family members being lynched, and moments before the younger of the two was gang raped. The four were part of a five-member group - the fifth person was a woman who was also stripped and paraded that was snatched from a police team after they hid out when the B Phainom village was attacked.
This story is from the July 23, 2023 edition of Hindustan Times.
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