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\u2019s daughter.\nRHD president K. Kath Rengma in a press release questioned as to whether the colony was a \u201cfiefdom\u201d where it still allows to maintain \u201ctraditional cages\u201d where the victim was inhumanly confined and tortured.
\nThe Hoho also reminded the accused GB and Aokong colony that such \u201cbamboo jails\u201d where the victim was tortured was alien to Rengma culture and an insult to the entire Rengma tribe.
\nThe 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.
\nIt further revealed that it would stand by the principle of \u201cpresumed innocent until proven guilty\u201d and challenged the accused to prove that the victim stole his daughter\u2019s mobile phone.
\nThe Hoho also warned relatives of the accused and elders of Aokong colony not to approach the victim\u2019s family for any kind of compromise.
\nMeanwhile, the Hoho also suggested to the state government to declare usage of \u201cbamboo jails\u201d 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 \u201ckidnapping, illegal confinement, torture and attempt to murder\u201d.<\/p>\n
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