Minor raped by uncle

Imphal Jul 7 MNS/UNA : An 11-year old girl has been allegedly raped by her uncle at Phaknung Mayai Leikai under Lamlai Police Station of Imphal East district on July 5 last. The father of the minor girl has lodged a complaint with the police who registered a FIR case on Sunday. According to the […]

Imphal Jul 7 MNS/UNA : An 11-year old girl has been allegedly raped by her uncle at Phaknung Mayai Leikai under Lamlai Police Station of Imphal East district on July 5 last. The father of the minor girl has lodged a complaint with the police who registered a FIR case on Sunday.
According to the father of the minor girl studying in Class V at a government school, his cousin brother Kangujam Loken Singh son of Iboyai Singh of same locality had raped her minor child around 1 pm of July 5 in his house taking advantage of the absence of other family members.
The sexual assault on her child came to light when they (parents of the victim girl) received phone calls threatening of dire consequence if they lodged complaint with the police or informed local people. The phone caller identified himself to be the son of the accused person, the father told media persons today after relating the bizarre crime against his ward.
He further said that the accused has been absconding since the day of the incident. A complaint has been filed with the police today and medical examinations would be carried out tomorrow as told by the police, he added.
This was the second case in which minor was raped by her uncle after the recent case of raping a 14-year old girl by her uncle in Imphal West’s Salam Khul on the night of June 29 in which villagers caught the alleged rapist and handed over to the police.
Rape and molestation cases were rapidly increasing in Manipur in the last three years. As per a compiled report of the state police department, a total of 150 rape cases were reported during the last three years, from 2010 till 2012.
Thirty-four rape cases were recorded in 2010, 53 cases in the following year 2011 and it was 63 in 2012. During the same period, at least 118 molestation cases (31 in 2010, 38 in 2011 and 49 in 2012) were recorded in various police stations across the state.
Cases related to ‘cruelty by husband and relatives’ are also increasing rapidly in the state as 18 cases of the kind were recorded in 2010. In the following year 2011, 39 cases were recorded and in 2012, 43 cases were recorded.
Noting the rising crimes against women in Manipur seriously and condemning the recent cases of violence against women in the state, women wing of the Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) has resolved to table the matter in the upcoming Congress’s Mahila Convention to be held in Mumbai for discussion.
Addressing a press conference held at Imphal Congress Bhavan today, president of Manipur Pradesh Mahila Congress, Ranisana said that the matter would be tabled for discussion during a two-day Congress Mahila Convention, scheduled on July 9 and 10 at Mumbai.
Rahul Gandhi and several other leaders of the Congress party would attend the convention and delegations from the state would urge the leaders of the party to take up all possible measures to reduce and prevent crimes against women and children in Manipur.

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