New Delhi, October 22, 2007
Same night after “North East Support Centre & Helpline” was officially launched at Press Club of India, a tribal girl age of 21 years old from Manipur was sexually assaulted by a tenant at 12:30 AM on October 21, 2007. In spite of protecting the victim, the landlord forced victim’s cousin and other students from north east India living in the rented house to vacate the rooms without any notice.
Fact Finding Team of “North East Support Centre & Helpline” after hearing the news of the incident, rushed to the spot and gave immediate trauma counseling to the victim. An application was lodged in Vasant Kunj Police station to book the accused and landlord under SC/ST Atrocity Prevention Act (1995)
The incident happened when she along with her sister went to visit her cousin brother who lives in rented a room in Mahipalpur.
The Victim reports to North East Support Centre & Helpline, “When my friend went to shared bathroom outside the room, I was waiting outside for her, a tenant claimed to be a police man started taking picture of me and molested me by pointing out to my private parts.”
When she screamed, her cousin brothers came out in rescue of her. They were abused by the man claimed to police in front to the residents by making assault remarks on them.
Next day, the landlord, instead of protecting the victim, forced three students from Manipur living in the rented rooms of the same building to vacate the house immediately without any prior notice. Students sought shelter in their friends living near by along with their belongings after they were pushed out by the landlord.
Fact Finding Team consisted of Supreme Court Lawyer Ms. Lansinglu Rongmei, All India Christian Council’s Regional Secretary Rev. Madhu Chandra, Journalist Ms. Lemyao Shimray, Dr. Alana Golmei and Mrs. Mandali Devi rushed to the spot and gave trauma counseling to the victims and lodged complaint in Vasant Kunj Police station under SC/ST Atrocity Prevention Acts (1995).
The Duty Officer Mr. Nalka Ram refused to entertain the complaint. After waiting for two and half hour long, under the instruction of Station House Office of Police Station Mr. Rajesh Kumar endorsed the application by victims and First Information Report (FIR) with appropriate sections of IPC and under SC/ST Atrocity Prevention Act (1995) will be registered.
Girls from North East India have suffered sexual abuses at work places, colleges, rented homes, roads and market places in recent time. In 2005 a girl was raped in a moving car. A girl was molested by a manager of Mall in Gurgaon last year and in last September, two girls were assaulted in Delhi University Campus, of which duty office of Police station refused to take their complaint.
North East Support Centre & Helpline (http://www.nesupportcentre.blogspot.com/) is combined initiative of various human rights activists, social workers, students, journalists and lawyers seeking to prevent harassment and abuses meted out to North East People and tribal communities of other states.
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Mr. Madhu Chandra
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14 comments:
Who are the northeast people? Are they seen as sex toys? Every almost month there is this kind of incident to be heard! It's so tiresome for the north east people. Why are we being discriminated? The authorities should have taken a deep investigation and action for the safety of the people and to the victim on this matter.
This is inndeed a very humiliating news again. I from the bottom of my heart cannot tolorate these sexual assualts. I would like to emphasize a single points for us too. Lets reevaluate ourselves. Do we or our ladies behave upto the point where someone can respect us? I know so many girls from our side behaving very loose and an easy prey for them. I am not justifying their assualts, what i mean is lets behave ourself too.
It is a laudable effort by everyone involved to get the helpline established. We are often mute spectators when even the law enforcement agencies refused to listen to complaints from north easterners. It is appreciated if action-taken-reports would be pursued effectively after filing of FIRs. My appreciation to all those who took pain to set up the helpline.
Hello everyone,
Just wanted to say thank you for setting up this helpline. My support goes out to you and all those affected. It is about time we got rid of discrimination of any form.
Regards,
S. Gurumayum.
Hi,
I am a Computer professional working in manipur. It is harsh news to even keep in our ear that another sexual assaultation has occured at Delhi. This is a real indiscrimination and exploitation of the minorities and should not leaved discouraged. This is against the human right and time comes that we the NE people are really need to unite together and make an exemplary punishment not to happen it again.
Thanks
Anonymous
i don't blame the girls, the indian mindset is very cheap and need a slap or two to change their mindset. if someone misbehave with you whether it is an old/young man just give a tight slap.
This is another shock history again...i couldnt imagine what our MPs, MLAs and OFFICERS do till now, why they didnt shout for their people, students? we are really just helpless. I really appreciate the work set up by the North East Support Center and Helpline. DELHI people are the most worse cannibal in the whole India.
This is not a good news. Instead of blaming other let us examine ourselves as to what went wrong, why did this happen. We have kept God aside and did what the world did. To many the fear of God simply "does not arise". This is epicenter why things went wrong.
As for the culprit let the law of the land take its own befitting course.
Please make your helpline numbers prominent on the site. If this is supposed to be a helpline information website, then it should have easily accessable links and information easily viewable as soon as the site is loaded. I had to scroll throught the lines and lines of text to find out the helplline numbers. Please do not take it otherwise, but I think you should get a more memorable website address.The current one cannot be easily remembered by a lay person. If this is a helpline or support site then it should have information about the persons, aims and objectives, how to contact, etc, etc. If you need help or suggestions on improvement please feel free to reply to this.
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its really good for people like staying at new delhi... thank u all
I am surprised by the attitude of the narrator and many of the comments. Why do you people do not treat it as an issue of violence or discrimination against women? Where does discrimination against NE come in here?
The way the news is put up, any outsider would get the impression that only NE women are harrassed in Delhi.
Delhi is such a bad city that cases of violence/harrassment of women keep happening. From these thousands of cases, the story is able to only pick out 3-4 cases involving women from from NE, since 2005. Does this statistics show discrimination against NE?!
Hi Passerby,
You are very true. It is definately discrimation to women irrective of where they come from. NE Support Centre & Helpline does not only look into the issues related to NE people.
The member bodies of NE Support Centre & Helpline are already actively involved in the issues of female discrimination like sexual abuses, gender bias, female fenticide/fenticide etc. in national and internation level.
We have been involve for numbers of years to prevent discrimination meted out to minorities and marginalised people of India.
In recent past, we had incident after incident of many form of harassment to north east people and most of the time they felt helpless when police and higher authorities do not take their complaints.
High degree of descrimination to people from NE and tribal communities from other parts of the country has been reported and very little has been doneto protect them from harassment.
I am really saddened to hear that the northeasterners are being mistreated by the so called Delhites in New Delhi. What a shame and embarrassment! I'd like to urge the northeastern officials to work really, really hard on this and take this matter very seriously. Just a piece of advice to our sisters from the northeast: please try to dress more modestly and guess u all have to be a bit more well clad(covered). I may be wrong but on the other hand, I've seen alot of our girls dressed very scantily.
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