Manipur unrest
No sane person will ever buy the story put out by the Manipur Chief Minister — that he “got to know of the incident only after a video went viral on Wednesday” (Page 1, “Four held in Manipur sexual assault case”, July 21). Is the country’s intelligence system so inept that it failed to tell the high constitutional authorities who matter about this horrific incident?
What is even more distressing is the attempt to try and equate the Manipur horror with cases of assault against women in non-Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled States such as Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. This can be read as an attempt at whataboutery in trying to ‘normalise’ heinous crimes.
