“They raped me till I had senses: Meitei woman gang-raped by Kuki men during Manipur violence narrates her ordeal”, Opindia, September 13, 2023:
“Another horrible case of sexual assault that transpired during the ethnic violence in Manipur in early May surfaced recently. The 37-year-old victim, who was gang-raped on 3rd May and has been staying in a relief camp for internally displaced people reported the shocking matter to the authorities on 13 July. She didn’t disclose the crime for over two months, and the matter was reported by the media last month after an FIR was registered by the police.
The woman, a mother of three children, is a resident of Churachandpur district and stated that she was caught by a group of men on 3 May and gang-raped while she was fleeing from her burning house with her two sons, niece and sister-in-law. The case has been filed under Sections 376D, 354, 120B and 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). According to the first information report (FIR), at 6.30 pm, miscreants started burning the woman and her neighbour’s houses, after which she, her two sons, niece and sister-in-law ran as fast as they could.
The mother of three recently recounted the gut-wrenching episode in an interview with News The Truth and stated, “I don’t wish this upon any other woman. I was running with my children. They raped me till I had my senses……”
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