‘PM is sleeping…’ BJP leader resigns over Manipur violence

NT Correspondent

New Delhi: Bihar BJP spokesperson Vinod Sharma has resigned from the party over the ongoing violence in Manipur. Slamming Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh for saying that there are ‘hundreds of similar cases’ of women being paraded naked, Sharma said that the situation in Manipur has ‘defamed India’.

"Still, the PM is sleeping, he doesn't have the courage to sack CM Biren Singh. As a human being, I couldn’t tolerate this and raised the matter,” Sharma said.

Over 600 Meiteis leave Mizoram

More than 600 Meiteis have left Mizoram afraid of being targeted after protests over the viral video of two women being stripped and paraded by a mob in Manipur, a senior police officer said on Thursday.

Superintendent of Police, Crime Investigation Department, Special Branch, Vanlalfaka Ralte told PTI that the Metei people left the state afraid of being targetted after an ex-militant organisation issued an advisory after the video of two women paraded by a mob in Manipur.

The SP said the Meiteis also felt "insecure" due to the solidarity march organised by civil society groups. 

CBI to take over Manipur sexual assault case

Almost three months after the horrendous incident happened, a top government functionary said on Thursday that the CBI will probe the case of sexual assault on two women who were stripped and paraded by a mob in Manipur, asserting that no effort will be spared to ensure stringent action against the accused.

The government will seek the trial of the case, the details of which came out last week through the leak of the video of the horrific incident, in Assam, the official said.

The person who filmed the incident has been arrested and his mobile phone seized, the official said, adding the recovery of the mobile will also establish the sequence of events.