Monday, April 20, 2009

Many condemn rape and murder of Zeliangrong child at Delhi

TAMENGLONG, Apr 18: The individuals and different organizations of Zeliangrong community at Tamenglong district strongly condemned the barbaric act of rape and murder of an innocent child at Mahipalpur in Delhi on April 17 and appealed not to repeat such acts.

The victim, Gaipuilu, 9, was the daughter of Martin and her mother Aluna is serving as nurse at Indian Spinal Injury Centre at Delhi. They were residing at Mahipalpur. Her original village is Sempang village in Tamenglong but went to reside at Jaluke of Nagaland.
A family member narrated to IFP last night that the incident took place on April 17, when her mother went for duty leaving behind the victim and her grandmother. The child went up to the roof to dry clothes and as the girl did not return after some 20 minutes the grandmother went up and found her missing. She immediately rang up her mother and started searching and finally found the girl in the water tank of another building block. Her post mortem confirmed that she was raped and murdered, the source said.
In the meantime, Sira Kharay, president of the Naga Students Union Delhi (NSUD) informed the IFP that after condolence service at Emmanuel Baptist Church of Zeliangrong Christian Fellowship at Rajniwaz, Delhi a public rally under the banner of “Is the law of the land merely a scarecrow without a law keeper?” was organized and submitted a memorandum to the commissioner of Delhi police HQs, the source said.
Meanwhile, the Zeliangrong Students Union, Tousem area and the Zeliangrong Pui (Woman) Baudi strongly condemned the barbaric act of rape and murder. While condemning the act Ramning, secretary of the Zeliangrong Pui (Woman) Baudi and Ileilung Newmei, convener of ZSUTA said that the north east students were not secure in Delhi. “This is not the first time such incidents happened in Delhi to the north east girls. The concerned authority should book the culprits and befitting punishment awarded to the culprits,” they maintained.
As per the memorandum, the Naga Students Union Delhi have demanded the commissioner of Delhi police arrest the culprits involved immediately, and deploy more police 24x7 in the localities where the vulnerable sections of the society like the north eastern communities reside.
Further, the memo demanded setting up of a commission to check the negligence and discrimination by the Delhi police personnel towards the north eastern population, and book them according to the law for dereliction of duty and discrimination towards the minorities like SC/ST.
The memo also demanded setting up of a nodal police officer in charge of north eastern population in South Delhi police station under the capacity of Deputy Police Commissioner, for speedy delivery of justice, like the one set up in North Delhi the memo stated. The memo was signed by Sira Kharay, president of the Naga Student Union Delhi (NSUD) and its general secretary Zuben Ovung.

Source: http://ifp.co.in/shownews.php?newsid=1539

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