Manipur rape case: 5 arrested on charge of parading women naked

MANIPUR, July 22: The Manipur police arrested another person involved in the viral video which showed two women being paraded naked and sexually assaulted in Manipur. Four others involved in the case were arrested on July 20 and were remanded to 11-day police custody yesterday.

"This is the fifth arrest made so far in connection with the month-old video, which went viral days ago," said Manipur police. The first arrest was made in the early hours of Thursday, hours after the video went viral.

Police say the assault on the women took place on 4 May but it made national headlines on Thursday after the video started going viral on social media. The federal government has asked all social media companies to delete the video from their platforms.

The horrific video of the two women was widely shared on social media on Wednesday. It shows them being dragged and groped by a mob of men who then push them into a field.

The Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum (ITLF) said in a statement that the atrocities had been committed in a village in Kangpokpi district against women from the Kuki-Zo tribal community. It also alleged that the women had been gang raped.

(ANI)