Day: August 21, 2012

Senapati, Aug 21NNN: Rendering a Good Samaritan service today to the home-bound students and people of Manipur from elsewhere India, the United Naga Council (UNC), All Naga Students Association, Manipur (ANSAM), Naga Peoples Organisation (NPO), Senapati District Students Association (SDSA), Mao Council, Karong and Senapati Towm Committee, Senapati District Women Association (SDWA) and others provided snacks and other comforts at Mao Gate in the Manipur-Nagaland border.
The surprise students and others who have fled their work places in southern cities of India today experienced a welcome treat from these Naga organisations at Mao Gate.
More than 150 people were accorded and given snacks at the relief camp opened by these Naga organisations at the border town. The Naga civil bodies have planned to open the relief camp for the next two weeks and if need be the duration will be extended, said a source.
Some of the students while interacting with the Naga civil body leaders said that though they were not physically assaulted nor threatened directly but they were fleeing as SMSs were doing the round that August 20 was the deadline given for the North East people to leave their respective places from some of the south Indian cities. Some of them narrated that their friends were threatened and even assaulted physically. Some even alleged they heard of snatching of cell phones from their friends by miscreants.
Meanwhile, leaders of the Naga organisations at Mao Gate have opened the relief camp not only to provide snacks and other comforts but to act as a moral booster to the already shocked and traumatised students and people who are fleeing to their respective home state. These Naga organisations also acted as guides while looking for vehicles to various destinations.
Meanwhile, it has been witnessed that people from the North East are fleeing from the their work places from Indian cities mostly in the south since the last few days following the heightening apprehension of the escalation of violence against them from certain quarters.

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Imphal, Aug 21: The body of Sarif Ahmed of Lilong was brought to Manipur today and his body was brought to JNIMS morgue.
In connection with the death of the student a JAC has been formed in connection with the killing of him. A meeting was also held at Lilong Bazar.
The resolutions of the meeting included among other things to offer a job equivalent to MPS or MCS to the family, to donate a library in the cotton college where he studied and to provide Rs 10 lakhs to the relatives of the victim.
The body will not be received till the demands are met.
However the JAC has decided to take the body of Sarif after Chief Minister O Obobi ensured the former to meet its demands,” the JAC convenor Zakir Hussain.
It was informed that the CBI has already begun probe into the death of Sarif, Hussain said.
He also said the Government side assured the JAC to take up necessary steps within five days to pay a special ex-gratia and a government job to the next of kin and build a library in memory of the late student at a proper place in Assam.
The incident had happened near the Jalpaiguri railway station in the northern part of the state of West Bengal close to Assam when two people from Northeast were killed and nine others were injured after being thrown out of the moving train.
The exodus of Northeast students and other workers including professionals from the South Indian cities in the last four or five days is not the outcome of the Assam violence but it is a long time racial profiling of the people of the region, the Joint Students’ Coordination Committee (JSCC) in Manipur said Tuesday.
The Joint Students’ Co-ordination Committee consists of Pangal Students’ Organisation, Kuki Students’ Organisation, Tangkhul Katamnao Saklong, Zeliangrong Students’ Union Manipur.These students’ body under the aegis of JSCC addressed a joint press conference at the headquarters of All Manipur Students’ Union here at DM College campus where the leaders of various student organisations from the hill were also attended.
Thokchom Suresh, member JSCC said Northeast students and other people fleeing Bangalore, Pune and Hydrabad are not secured on their way because no security measures have been taken up for them though two special trains are being arranged to transport them home. He alleged the Northeast people residing in these cities are not provided with adequate security even though some particular areas are secured and appealed the Government to take up proper steps instead of politicize the whole gamut of sensitive issue. Another JSCC member, Moirangthem Angamba said the Government is still unable to take up stringent action over the Pune incident wherein a Manipuri student was severely beaten up and that it has remained silent on the follow up incidents occuring in the Southern states.
It is really unfortunate the state Government has not the guts to talk to the West Bengal Government in connection with the killing of Sarif Ahmad, Angamba said. He said it would be a right move of the state Government if it sends a ministerial team to West Bengal to find out the facts and circumstances on the killing of Sarif instead of dispatching police officials there for monitoring the situation.
Postponing it by calling all the incidents as rumours will lead to nothing, he suggested saying the state government should provide security to all the Manipuris on their way from Guwahati to the state.
Leaders of Pangal Students’ Organisation, Kuki Students’ Organisation, Tangkhul Katamnao SaKlong, Zeliangrong Students’ Union of Manipur and JSCC, an umbrella body of six student organisations participated at the press conference also strongly condemned the killing of Zeliangrong Students’ Union, Manipur secretary by armed men.
The north east inter state winger transporter union in a press released urged the concerned authority to punish those persons who were responsible for the killing of Md. Sarif Ahmed. The union also urged the authority to provide adequate ROP to drivers of truck so that essential commodities can be brought to Manipur during the band, blockade on NH.

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Churachandpur Aug 21 NNN: In order to make the police more efficient in dealing with cases involving juveniles, a one day workshop christened as District Level Consultation for Police Personnel on Juvenile Justice Act was conducted in Churachandpur district headquarters in southern Manipur today.
MACR K.Pradipkumar said that owing to the difficulty in identifying whether a person is still considered as a child i.e one who is yet to attain the age of eighteen according to the definition of juvenile and as termed by the Juvenile Justice ( Care and Protection ) Act, 2000, many acts of the police have created problems.
Pradipkumar while pointing out the importance of biological age determination to be conducted by the police when making apprehension of any child for some minor offends maintained that there are times when the age of the person concerns which are, for instance 15 was recorded as 21 or 22 and then gives the treatment as if he or she is mature “This causes more harm than good,” Pradipkumar said . He also added that sometimes the age of an apprehended person may be determined on looks and his appearances and in the process those who appeared as very old but young in age, happens to get the worst form of punishment.
The MACR convenor then stated that sending a juvenile without proper determination of his age to jail may be counter-productive and create more social problems while adding that there are times of confusion when a child is arrested who had already got himself inducted into a militant outfit. “The question comes whether the juvenile should be sent to jail or place under the care of Justice Juvenile Board ( JJB).
Pradipkumar stressed the need for the clear determination of anyone arrested by the police before proceeding to a next step saying that there are no proper places to look after the person if the police having had arrested a child but registered him as an adult.
Pradipkumar o suggested that a good communication procedure between the police and the Juvenile Justice Board is a must .
K Saroja Devi highlighted the conditions of working girls in cities. She said there are so many people in the region working at massage parlours and other work places in cities getting no proper facilities to live and are greatly exploited. In this regard, she cited an example one girl they have rescued recently from Kerala hailing from Chandel district who was very sick and needed good medical attention .

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/awareness-campaign-on-juvenile-act/