A 21-year-old woman, who was among the two women stripped, paraded, gang-raped and filmed by a mob in Manipur’s Thoubal on May 4, has said in a statement to the police that they had sought refuge in a police vehicle parked nearby, but the two policemen present initially refused to help, saying, “There is no ignition key.”
Later, the policemen disappeared after driving the rape survivors towards a 1,000-strong mob.
The statements of the two victims recorded by the Manipur Police on July 21 and July 26 under Section 161 of the CrPC, and accessed by The Hindu, reveal the ordeal faced by the victims.
