Rengama Hoho Dimapur (RHD) has strongly condemned the torture of Gwakenye Semp on July 13 by Y. Yarmongba GB Aokong colony Dimapur on charges of stealing a mobile phone belonging to the latter’s daughter.
RHD president K. Kath Rengma in a press release questioned as to whether the colony was a “fiefdom” where it still allows to maintain “traditional cages” where the victim was inhumanly confined and tortured.
The Hoho also reminded the accused GB and Aokong colony that such “bamboo jails” where the victim was tortured was alien to Rengma culture and an insult to the entire Rengma tribe.
The Hoho has appealed to the police and the district administration that the accused should not be released under any circumstances, adding it would take action as deemed fit if any attempt was made to release the accused by any person/union.
It further revealed that it would stand by the principle of “presumed innocent until proven guilty” and challenged the accused to prove that the victim stole his daughter’s mobile phone.
The Hoho also warned relatives of the accused and elders of Aokong colony not to approach the victim’s family for any kind of compromise.
Meanwhile, the Hoho also suggested to the state government to declare usage of “bamboo jails” as illegal and ban from all urban areas of Nagaland so that misunderstanding between communities does not arise in future, and demanded the accused be terminated from service for taking law into his own hand and the charges against the accused GB read as “kidnapping, illegal confinement, torture and attempt to murder”.
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