The Indian DAILY HINDU web site carries Muhammad Haque COMMENT telling Manmohan Singh to deliver Justice to women NOW!

Muhammad Haque telling India PM Manmohan Singh to make the overdue start: deliver justice for women

The Muhammad Haque COMMENT directly addressing the Indian PM Manmohan Singh appears at the top of the COMMENTS section after the piece published by the leading English language Media Group the HINDU in India.

The MUHAMMAD HAQUE Comment in full:

If the controlling cliques in the Indian central Govt are honest and if their 
counterparts in the Indian States are honest then the shame and the disgrace that 
they have shown so far may begin to be reversed. 


If they still fail to get it and if they refuse to apologise in kind for the past nearly 70 
years of failures following the move to oust the British began in earnest then the 
whole of the population will be diminished. 


The women in India deserve absolutely no patronage.

No soothing reassurance. 
What women need and deserve is straight and simple. Justice. Now. Every time any 
violation actually happens against a woman, there must be the due remedy. Instantly. 


This is the start that Manmohan Singh must make. 


Quit making banal statements and patronising nosies. 
And the victims in Bihar, Manipur and elsewhere of ALL sexual, gender-linked 
violation, violence, assault and insult must be attended to right now, without delay. 


1645 Hrs GMT London Sunday 30 December 2012.

from:  Muhammad Haque
Posted on: Dec 30, 2012 at 22:17 IST

The HINDU website carrying the above comment is accessible by the following URL [web page address]

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/columns/b-s-raghavan/india-diminished-by-rape-victims-death/article4256297.ece#comments

PRIVATE EYE web site: How Conmen 'Civil Servants' operate to undermine society, liberty and security

Spookdom’s Farr horizons Snooper’s charter, Issue 1330 FARR HORIZONS: Charles Blandford Farr, late of MI6, whose dream of a massive database detailing everyone’s emails and phone calls got short shrift at Westminster THE defeat of government plans to introduce a “snooper’s charter” last week appears to be a career disaster for Charles Blandford Farr OBE, until now Whitehall’s smoothest securocrat. Farr has enjoyed an extraordinary rise since he was a lowly MI6 officer wandering central Asia offering taxpayers’ money to opium growers in the hope of persuading them to abandon the drug trade. Labour home secretary John Reid brought him in from the shadows in 2007 to head counter-terrorism. Farr responded to the promotion with a plan to build a giant database where the government could hold details of all emails and telephone calls. A blank cheque to spy In opposition David Cameron’s Tories were against giving the security services a blank cheque to spy on everyone without a warrant. But when Dave arrived in Downing Street and Theresa May pitched up at the Home Office, their defence of a citizen’s right to privacy vanished. They agreed to a new “Farr-more” proposal to allow the security services, police and possibly dozens of other state agencies to monitor everyone’s emails, Skype calls, contacts on social media and conversations in chat rooms, along with details of which websites they visit and computer games they play. Farr’s success may be down to the fact that he couldn’t look less like a sinister spook. To add to his reassuring manner, he speaks in a constipated form of bureaucratese that sends listeners into a catatonic trance. The Home Office disguised his plan to hack every computer and mobile phone in Britain with the dull name of the “Interception Modernisation Programme” under Labour, and changed it to the equally soporific “Communications Capabilities Development Programme” under the coalition. So successfully did Farr navigate Britain’s regime change in 2010, he even persuaded Fiona Cunningham, Theresa May’s special adviser, to become his girlfriend. Ferocious mauling A background in spookdom, however, is not the best preparation for public scrutiny – and the coalition had to yank back its communications data bill after a ferocious mauling from a joint committee of MPs and peers. The Home Office had failed to consult the computer service providers who would have to insert thousands of black box probes into the country’s computer and phone networks, it said. Simon Milner from Facebook told the committee the Home Office had contacted his social media site only after it published its bill, and even then it had had just “one phone conversation with them about it”. Farr and May wanted to future-proof their bill by giving the home secretary the power to spy on any new forms of communication that come along without democratic approval. What with Britain being a parliamentary democracy and all, MPs and peers were in no mood to let them do as they pleased. “We do not think that parliament should grant powers that are required only on the precautionary principle,” they said. “There should be a current and pressing need for them.” ‘Fanciful and misleading’ Peers and MPs also suspected Farr was throwing public money around. The Home Office may have under-estimated “the cost of security [stopping all your private data leaking],” they said. And given Whitehall’s disastrous record in implementing IT projects, there was “a reasonable fear that this legislation will cost considerably more than the current estimates”. As for the figure for the estimated benefits that blanket spying would bring, it was “fanciful and misleading”. After such harsh words one might have expected Farr’s career to suffer. But he still has the support of Theresa May and the affection of her special adviser. Civil servants whisper that May could yet promote him to be the Home Office’s next permanent secretary. But Farr may go, well, farther still.

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INTERPRETERS: EYE TOLD YOU SO! ‘Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.’ MPs finally catch up with the Eye’s expose of the disastrous outsourcing of court interpreting. SCHMIDT STIRRING The PM has a clear-out of his council of business advisers… so why does Eric Schmidt, chairman of tax-resistant Google, still have Dave’s ear? JP MORGAN GRINDER With his reported ‘two brains’, should universities minister David Willetts really be accepting hospitality from a bank with a stinking track record? GONG CULTURE Gavel Basher on how David Cameron has resurrected political patronage to give honours to some deeply average parliamentarians. FOX ON THE LOOSE Liam Fox may have left the MoD under a cloud, but – amazingly – his views on ‘emerging threats’ are still being sought around the globe.

Boasting, bragging, opportunist, class-warrior Conman Cameron heads for the cliff

Boasting, bragging, opportunist, class-warrior Conman Cameron heads for the cliff

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London 

Monday

31 December 2012

Boasting, bragging, opportunist, class-warrior Conman Cameron heads for the cliff, just as the Wall Street Journal admits the USA itself is heading for the cliff! 

Congress Meets Cliff's Edge

Senate Budget Talks Bear Little Fruit as Lawmakers Reach Year-End Deadline

BY JANET HOOK AND SIOBHAN HUGHES

Senate negotiations to craft a bipartisan budget deal proceeded in chaotic fits and starts Sunday, raising new questions about whether Congress would be able to steer the country away from the fiscal cliff.

The day featured 11th-hour negotiations between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), lengthy closed-door meetings by each party and a new effort to involve Vice President Joe Biden in the talks. The Senate had set itself a goal of hatching a deal by midafternoon Sunday, a deadline that slipped by as both sides instead bickered in public

[and then Rupert Murdoch blocked access to the rest of the WSJ story]

THIS is the part of December that is related to the time two years ago when Kay Jordan became absent

Kay Jordan built the lives of people in the community, not for herself: Ala Uddin

1315 Hrs GMT London Sunday 30 December 2012

Editor © Muhammad Haque

THIS is the part of December that is related to the time two years ago when Kay Jordan became absent

THE PICTURE on the wall was taken by Khalid Hussain as Kay addressed the KHOODEELAAR! rally on Sunday 22 January 2006 at the Brady Centre, Hanbury Street, off Brick Lane London E1

The reality that Kay was going to be absent from December 2010 onwards came as a most unexpected surprise

A year later, almost to the day in December 2011 one of Kay’s most favourite members of the “ Family in the Brick Lane London E1 area” too became absent, almost without any previous indication

Pictured: Ala Uddin, a local activist and formerly a member of the Tower Hamlets Council who observed Kay Jordan for many many years.

Ala Uddin said this in a short video published by AADHIKARonline in March 2011. 

Ala Uddin says in the video that he wished that Kay Jordan were around for another 20, 30 years.

Ala Uddin was among dozens of pope, paying tributes to Kay Jordan at the “BDC”. 

The occasion marked the start of Kay’s absence from the area. 

The work for the community that Kay Jordan was doing will continue with the Kay Jordan Foundation and associated initiatives

[To be continued]

India violence against women: Why the NYT is utterly wrong to make justice for women conditional

India violence against women: 

Why the NYT is utterly wrong to make justice for women conditional

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Sunday

30 December 2012

The © Muhammad Haque Daily Ethical Commentary: ‘Amanat’ [5] 

The New York Times [NYT], in its Editorial comment today [Sunday 30 December 2012] ruins its case against violence against women in India by “arguing” that women should be treated better because that way India will achieve its potential as a rising economic power!

I quote the NYT Editorial bit below

Why must women be only treated justly because that way will mark some OTHER achievement for Society? 

Why mustn’t women be recognised, respected, left alone as being entitled to justice in their own rights, without any strings attached to that justice being made available?

The NYT says:

“India, a rising economic power and the world’s largest democracy, can never reach its full potential if half its population lives in fear of unspeakable violence.” 

[To be continued] 

RSPCA destroys HALF of the animals that it rescues - yet thousands are completely healthy

Revealed: RSPCA destroys HALF of the animals that it rescues - yet thousands are completely healthy

• Shock figures reveal 3,400 animals put down for 'non-medical reasons'
• Whistleblower claims she shot healthy dogs 'because there was no room'
• Statistics show 10,000 fewer animals were rehomed in 2011
• But charity's prosecutions of rogue pet owners leap 20 per cent
• Countryside Alliance says charity should lose right to call itself Royal

By NICK CRAVEN and LYNNE WALLIS

PUBLISHED: 22:05, 29 December 2012 | UPDATED: 22:08, 29 December 2012

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The RSPCA destroys nearly half the animals it ‘rescues’ each year, with thousands being put down for non-medical reasons, shocking figures obtained by The Mail on Sunday reveal.

The animal-welfare charity destroyed 53,000 animals last year – 44 per cent of those it took in – leading critics to claim that the organisation spends too much time on prosecuting cases of neglect and cruelty and not enough on finding new homes for animals.

The charity insists the vast majority of the animals were put down to end their suffering, but it admits that last year alone 3,400 animals were destroyed for ‘non-medical’ reasons, such as the lack of space in kennels and catteries.

Figures have revealed the RSPCA routinely puts down healthy animals, with 3,400 destroyed in 2011 for 'non-medical reasons (file picture)

Death sentence: Human bolt guns, like the one pictured, are often used to kill pets

In 2009, the RSPCA, which is one of Britain’s biggest charities and receives £120 million a year in donations, stopped accepting stray animals and unwanted pets.

 

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The number of animals re-homed has dropped from 70,000 in 2009 to 60,000 last year, while the number of convictions secured has leapt by 20 per cent. Figures obtained for the past five years show that 46 per cent of animals rescued by the charity were put down.

And today, The Mail on Sunday reveals a whistleblower’s account, raising concerns – denied by the organisation – that the charity kills more healthy animals than necessary.

Former RSPCA inspector Dawn Aubrey-Ward, who worked for the organisation from 2008 to 2010, said she came across numerous examples of animals destroyed because there was no room for them in shelters.

‘If there wasn’t any room in the nearby RSPCA home or one of a number of approved charities, we were supposed to euthanise them,’  she claims.

The figures have also revealed the charity is rehoming fewer pets, with 10,000 fewer finding new owners in 2011 (file picture)

The RSPCA insists that euthanising animals is always a ‘last resort’, but a Mail on Sunday investigation has unearthed others criticising the charity’s approach.

Kent vet David Smith, who worked for the organisation for 12 years, said: ‘It seems to be all about prosecuting people now.

‘The RSPCA seems to have lost sight of its role as a charity that was set up to help people and animals.’

In the past two years, convictions secured by the charity have increased from 2,579 to 3,114. Last year, spinster Georgina Langley, 67, of West Hougham, Kent, was raided at her home by the RSPCA and had five of her 13 cats put down.

The charity prosecuted her for neglect, but Mr Smith, 62, came to her aid. After sending two of the cats’ bodies to the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) for an independent post-mortem, he said: ‘There appears to be no good reason why the RSPCA allowed these animals to be put to sleep.

‘The RVC post-mortems concluded the cats were healthy, with no signs of incorrect feeding or major problems with fleas or other illnesses.

‘They were very heavy-handed with an elderly lady and kept her standing out in her garden in the rain for hours while they searched her house.

Despite fewer animals being found new homes, the RSPCA's prosecutions of rogue pet owners shot up by 20 per cent (file pic)

‘All the cats required was some flea spray. When I started doing work for them, the inspectors rarely prosecuted people – it was mostly about helping people to care for the animals. They would go and check on OAPs  and make sure they have flea treatment etc, and that just never happens these days.

‘They always seem to want to go for prosecution, no matter what, and I hear the same story from other vets.’

Following a three-day trial in May 2012, the RSPCA dropped 11 of the 13 charges against Miss Langley.

She pleaded guilty to failing to get veterinary care quickly enough for two of her animals. An RSPCA spokesperson said: ‘Five of the cats were put to sleep on veterinary advice. The reason we had to get these cats out of the property is  that the conditions they were in were appalling.’

Another former RSPCA employee, Angela Egan-Ravenscroft, shared Ms Aubrey-Ward’s misgivings about the RSPCA.

The Countryside Alliance has called on the RSPCA to lose its Royal name, after the charity prosecuted the Heythrop hunt, pictured here on Boxing Day, for illegally killing foxes

Ms Egan-Ravenscroft was branch co-ordinator for the RSPCA London region between 1990 and 2000. Disillusioned with the way the charity was being run, she left and went to work for the Countryside Alliance.

She said: ‘Healthy, well-adjusted, rehomeable animals were being destroyed, and I didn’t want to be part of an organisation that did that. 

‘The RSPCA has badly lost its way and all of its reasons for being set up in the first place have been subverted. The grass-roots animal welfare no longer exists.’

A spokesperson for the RSPCA said: ‘It is simply not true that the RSPCA routinely puts down healthy animals.

‘We do need to put animals to sleep when it is in their interests.

‘Nobody who works for the RSPCA wants to have to put rehomeable animals to sleep but it is a sad reality of the work that we do.

‘Although the trend is in decline, the RSPCA sometimes has to put some rehomeable animals to sleep simply because they cannot be found good homes.’

Not all organisations feel that it necessary to destroy healthy animals, however.

Dogs Trust, for example, still takes in strays, but refuses to euthanise healthy animals.

COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE: 'CHARITY SHOULD LOSE RIGHT TO CALL ITSELF ROYAL'

The RSPCA has become a ‘politically motivated animal rights organisation’ and should be stripped of its Royal name, according to Sir Barney White-Spunner, head of the Countryside Alliance.
He spoke out after the Heythrop, David Cameron’s local hunt in Oxfordshire, was convicted of illegally killing foxes after a private prosecution brought by the RSPCA. 
The case cost the RSPCA almost £327,000 which the judge said was ‘staggering’ and suggested ‘members of the public may feel RSPCA funds can be more usefully employed’.
Sir Barney said: ‘Why is this Society still Royal? I don’t want to involve the Royal Family, but I will raise it with the relevant committee in Whitehall.
‘It was once a great institution. But the direction it’s going is very sad. The RSPCA is becoming a politically motivated animal rights organisation and I don’t think that’s why people give it money. We will look to the Charity Commission to investigate if the RSPCA is in breach of its charitable objectives.’
The RSPCA said: ‘The RSPCA and its trustees have acted entirely within the society’s charitable objectives and procedures and Charity Law.’

RSPCA whistleblower claims she was forced to put down fit pets during her time with charity

A former RSPCA inspector claims the charity is killing more healthy animals than necessary by branding them ‘unsuitable for rehoming’.

Speaking exclusively to The Mail on Sunday, Dawn Aubrey-Ward says she was forced to put down many healthy pets during her two years with the organisation.

Ms Aubrey-Ward claimed large numbers of animals, particularly dogs, were put to sleep after being classed ‘unsuitable for rehoming’, but that the definition could be widely drawn to often include older animals, those needing veterinary care, dogs deemed ‘aggressive’ or larger dogs which were ‘hard to home’.

Proud: Dawn Aubrey-Ward receives an RSPCA award for rescuing a lamb. She has accused the charity of killing animals that are fit and healthy

The RSPCA strenuously denies Ms Aubrey-Ward’s claims, describing her as a ‘disgruntled former employee’.

Ms Aubrey-Ward, 44, a divorced mother of four from Martock, Somerset, joined the RSPCA as a trainee inspector in 2007. But she soon found herself at odds with what she described as its ‘antiquated military-style’ regime which placed ‘prosecution and persecution’ of owners ahead of protection of their pets.

Ms Aubrey-Ward went on: ‘The RSPCA’s image was that they care for animals, prevent cruelty and help and advise people with animals. I was horrified when I learned we were going to have to put down healthy animals because we didn’t have room for them. It didn’t fit with their public image.’

She won an award from the RSPCA for her part in the rescue of a lamb and received glowing reports for her good work. But when she began to question the practice of putting healthy animals to sleep, she says she found her job was at risk.

‘If there wasn’t any room in the nearby RSPCA home or one of a number of approved charities, we were supposed to euthanise them,’ she said.

Early in her training, Ms Aubrey-Ward says, she saw a young rottweiler put into an RSPCA van for a check-up.

‘The dog, which was surely frightened, growled at the inspector with me. The other inspector said, “That’s it – this is an aggressive dog.” It was put down soon afterwards.’

Later, she rescued a heavily pregnant ‘staffie’ bitch from a cruel owner, along with an aggressive male dog. ‘With some TLC in a nice kennels, and someone to work on her behaviour, she would have been OK. The dog warden and I tried hard to find a space for her but we couldn’t,’ she said.

Caring: Dawn Aubrey-Ward with her pets

‘The warden took the dogs to RPSCA Hillingdon, where a vet said they should be put to sleep if nowhere could be found for them, and they were killed round the back. The dog warden noosed them and I shot them.’

Ms Aubrey-Ward said she was reprimanded for giving help and advice instead of issuing cautions, including the case of an ill, elderly man whose cat lay dying on his lap.

She took the cat away and put it down and was then upbraided for not cautioning the cat’s devastated owner for neglect.

 SHE said: ‘The RSPCA won’t work with people – they see every case as a chance to prosecute, to generate publicity  for themselves.’

Her career with the RSPCA ended when her bosses accused her of ‘stealing’ a rescued tortoise which she’d taken home ready to take to an animal centre.

Eventually, after a year of negotiations, she resigned, suffering a mental breakdown and a wrecked marriage, partly caused, she said, by her being posted away from home for long spells.

An RSPCA spokeswoman said: ‘Animals in our care are never routinely euthanised on the spot, and certainly not because there are no spaces. Our inspectors regularly go out of their way to find a place many miles away. Over 70 per cent of “on the spot” euthanasia of animal casualties the RSPCA is called out to deal with involve wildlife.

‘RSPCA inspectors are not allowed to use euthanasia drugs on companion animals. They are taken to a veterinary surgeon, who makes an expert assessment.

‘Prosecution is always a last resort. Only a small percentage of the cases the RSPCA investigates end in prosecution.’

The RSPCA’s chief vet Dr James Yeates said: ‘We rehome thousands of animals, but we cannot keep up.

‘So we do the best thing in a  bad situation, and sometimes  this means having to put to  sleep rehomable dogs, cats  and rabbits.’

The RSPCA added: ‘Dawn Aubrey-Ward is a disgruntled former employee who was subject to a disciplinary investigation for alleged theft of animals. She left with matters  still pending.’

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Cry for "Amanat" AND ALSO Say NEVER AGAIN!

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London
Saturday
29 December 2012

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/new-delhi-gang-rape-horror-six-men-are-charged-with-murder-as-india-vents-fury-16255605.html

Cry for 'Amanat' but don't only cry. Say No! Say Never again!

Cry for 'Amanat' but don't only cry. Say No! Say Never again!

The © Muhammad Haque Daily Ethical Commentary: Women's rights: "Amanat" [7]

1640 Hrs GMT

London

Saturday

29 December 2012

Cry for 'Amanat' but don't only cry. Say No! Say Never again! 

They are calling her 'Amanat', not her real name but it has captured the hearts. it is a trustworthy name. And this trust must never be betrayed. Never again must a noter woman be violated. 

[To be continued]

India Gang Rape: Cry for 'Amanat' but don't only cry. Say No! Say Never again!

Cry for 'Amanat' but don't only cry. Say No! Say Never again!

The © Muhammad Haque Daily Ethical Commentary: Women's rights: "Amanat" [7]

1640 Hrs GMT

London

Saturday

29 December 2012

Cry for 'Amanat' but don't only cry. Say No! Say Never again!

They are calling her 'Amanat', not her real name but it has captured the hearts. it is a trustworthy name. And this trust must never be betrayed. Never again must a noter woman be violated.

[To be continued]

Gang-raped Indian girl commits suicide

From the website of PRESSTV

Gang-raped Indian girl commits suicide

Demonstrators react as police in New Delhi fire tear gas during a protest calling for better safety for women following the rape of a student, December 22, 2012.

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An Indian teenager who fell victim to a gang rape has committed suicide, a police official says.

Inspector General Paramjit Singh Gill said on Thursday that the 17-year-old girl had been “running from pillar to post to get her case registered” but officers failed to register a rape complaint.

“One of the officers tried to convince her to withdraw the case.”

Meanwhile, the victim’s sister told the Indian television that police pressured the teenager to “either reach a financial settlement with her attackers or marry one of them.”

The teenager, who was reportedly gang raped on November 13 in the Patiala region in Punjab, was found dead on Wednesday night after swallowing poison.

There had been no reports of arrests before the teenager’s death, but three people were detained over the case on Thursday.

The incident comes amid the recent widespread protests in New Delhi over an incident where a 23-year-old medical student was raped by six men on a bus earlier in December.

Over the past days, thousands of angry protesters have taken to the streets and gathered near the Indian presidential palace, demanding better safety for women.

On Sunday, protesters marched on the presidential palace carrying banners that read, “We want justice,” and, “Hang the rapists.” Students also shouted anti-government slogans.

Reports say police used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators.

The protesters demanded the death penalty for all the seven suspects who are now under police custody.

Delhi is notorious for crimes against women, and using public transport at night or travelling alone is considered a great risk.

According to the National Crime Records Bureau, 522 rape cases were reported in Delhi and the National Capital Region in 2011. Over 650 rape cases have been reported in the capital so far this year.

People accuse the officers patrolling the capital’s streets of being insensitive toward sexual crimes and ignoring related complaints. They say the country’s slow judicial system also discourages women from making complaints. Meanwhile, only one third of accused rapists get punished.

Experts believe, unless there is severe punishment for rapists, the disastrous trend will never stop.

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India Gang rape murders: President should quit in shame at his criminal son

India Gang rape Murders: President should quit in shame at his criminal son!

1320 Hrs GMT

London

Saturday

29 December 2012.

The © Muhammad Haque Daily Ethical Commentary [1] 

Shame on the leaders of India Govt who have let rapists add murder to their crimes:

Manmohan Singh failed to show that he really cared for all the women and right-minded people in India. He has yet to be heard or seen expressing any concern about the fact that in Manipur, north-east India the police shot dead a TV journalist covering one of the protest demos held against the violent sex attack in front of other people by an armed man on a young woman, the actress Momoko Khangembam.

Singh is an expert at muttering banal words and at hiding the awful reality that the huge mass of people in the vast country are beyond the protection of democracy that he, Singh claims to be delivering!

What kind of democracy is it that allows rapes and sexual violent murders to take place against women daily?

What kind of values does Manmohan Singh represent?

He has never spoken on the rights of women in the context of rapes of all kinds.

He has only done so because of the murderous attack on the 23 year and and more so because of the people coming out and demonstrating.

Manmohan Singh owes huge apologies to the women of India for the violations of decades. He must not be allowed to get away by muttering insulting words of “sympathy” that are contemptibly hypocritical. And the “President” of India must quit in shame because of his criminal son who has added insult to injuries by attacking women protesting against the murderous rapist gang!

[To be continued] 

Momoko Khangembam  

She was attacked within days of the Delhi gang rape.

Actress molestation case rocks Manipur House

Posted by admin On 21 Dec 2012 | 

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Tags: Manipuri actress, Molestation, Momoko Khangembam     

IMPHAL, Dec 20 – The alleged molestation and assault of a popular young Manipuri actress rocked the last day of the ongoing Manipur Assembly session today.

Acknowledging the seriousness of the issue after it was brought up by Opposition leader Dr I Ibolhalbi Singh of the All India Trinamool Congress, Manipur’s Deputy Chief Minister Gai Khangam assured the House that the Government will take up necessary steps to book the culprits.

Manipuri film actor Momoko Khangembam in her early 20s was allegedly molested and assaulted by one Livingstone Anal who is said to be an NSCN-IM cadre while the actor was anchoring a music concert at the Chandel district HQ, on Wednesday night.

“The State forces in association with the Assam Rifles will coordinate in launching a combing operation to arrest the said culprit,” 

Gai khangam, who also holds the Home portfolio, informed the Assembly today.

Earlier, Opposition leader Dr I Ibolhalbi Singh raising the issue during the zero hour, demanded justice in the alleged molestation and assault case.

Expressing serious concern over the incident, Manipuri film personalities under the banner Manipur Film Forum tried to storm the Assembly complex this morning. However they were prevented by the police party on duty.

India police 'kill journalist' at Manipur protest

BBC web site:

India Police Kill Journalist reporting protests against sex attack on actress

India police 'kill journalist' at Manipur protest

23 December 2012 Last updated at 12:53

Demonstrators in the capital, Delhi, have defied a protest ban and gathered for a second day of marches over the gang rape of a student

Police in north-east India have shot dead a journalist covering a protest over a sex attack on an actress.

The cameraman was "killed in police firing" when the marches in Manipur state turned violent, a police spokesman told the AFP news agency.

Meanwhile authorities in the capital, Delhi, have banned protests over the gang rape of a student, after clashes broke out on Saturday.

The rape, which has left the woman in a critical condition, has caused outrage.

As protesters gathered for a second day of marches in central Delhi despite the protest ban, anger over sex crimes also spread to Manipur, where film actress Momoko publicly spoke out about being assaulted last week.

Demonstrators took to the streets of the state's capital, Imphal, demanding the arrest of her attacker.

The journalist was shot dead after violence erupted between security forces and protesters.

Rising anger

Meanwhile riot police in Delhi have used tear gas and batons to keep demonstrators, mainly college students, from marching on President Pranab Mukherjee's palace for a second day.

Routes leading to landmark government building have been cordoned off, and some metro stations are closed, the Reuters news agency reports.

On Saturday, thousands of people took to the capital's streets, carrying placards reading "Hang the Rapists" and "Save women. Save India".

Violence erupted as demonstrators tried to break through police barricades to march on the palace.

The government has tried to halt the rising anger over the assault by announcing a series of measures intended to make Delhi safer for women.

They include more police night patrols, checks on bus drivers and their assistants and the banning of buses with tinted windows or curtains.

But the protesters say the government's pledge to seek life sentences for the attackers is not enough - many are calling for the death penalty.

The 23-year-old victim and her friend had been to watch a film when they boarded the bus in the Munirka area intending to travel to Dwarka in south-west Delhi.

Police said she was raped for nearly an hour, both she and her companion were beaten with iron rods and thrown out of the moving bus into a Delhi street.

Doctors said on Saturday that the woman remained in a critical but stable condition, but had been removed from a ventilator.

The attack has prompted a week of candle-lit vigils and demonstrations amid some soul-searching about the safety of women in Delhi and other parts of the country.

Police figures show that, in Delhi, a rape is reported on average every 18 hours and some form of sexual attack every 14 hours.

National statistics show that 228,650 of the total 256,329 violent crimes recorded in 2011 were committed against women.

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