An 18-year-old girl from Imphal East in Manipur has filed a police complaint, stating that she was abducted and gangraped after a women vigilantte group handed her over to four armed men.
The Hindu reported that the incident took place on May 15 and the Police filed a zero FIR after the teenage girl approached them on July 21.
According to the FIR, the woman said that a group of women — whom she identified as Meira Paibis or women torchbearers, also known as ‘Mothers of Manipur’ — had handed her over to four armed men wearing black clothes.
The rape survivor, who was admitted in a critical condition at a hospital in neighbouring Nagaland.
This is one of a number of cases of sexual violence that have been reported from the State since ethnic violence between the tribal Kuki and the majority Meitei communities erupted on May 3.
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