Expressing “anguish and anger” at the sexual assault of two women in Manipur documented in a viral video, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday vowed that the guilty would not be spared and that the law would act with its “full might”.
“What has happened in Manipur cannot be forgiven,” he said, during his customary remarks at the start of the monsoon session of Parliament. He was responding to the stark footage of two women being stripped and paraded naked in Manipur’s Thoubal district; however, he did not respond to the new INDIA coalition‘s demand that he give a comprehensive statement on the situation in the State, which has seen violent ethnic clashes since early May.
