DIMAPUR, JANUARY 6 (MExN): The Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh, a national social organization of Indian Gorkhas with units in 22 states of India, views sexual violence against women as abhorrent and condemns all such acts perpetrated against all Indian women. The organization has already sent a detailed representation to the Justice JS Verma Commission set up by the Central Government recently and suggested ways both to prevent gender violence against women as well as to procure justice for victims of crimes against them of a sexual nature.
The Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh is particularly grieved to learn that in the past three months from November 2012 to January 2013, there have been four (4) incidents of rape and murder of Gorkha women in Nagaland. Among them, Meena Rai, mother of two, was raped and murdered at Medziphema on November 2, 2012; a 4-year-old Nepali girl was brutally raped on Christmas Day; and a 12-year-old Gorkha girl was abducted and raped near Naginimora.
The organization stands in solidarity with the victims, informed a press note from Rev Dr Enos Das Pradhan, President, Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh.
The Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh condemned in no uncertain terms these incidents of rape and murder and called upon the Government of Nagaland to expeditiously bring the perpetrators of these crimes to justice and take legal steps to punish them to the fullest measure possible. It also requested the state government to ensure protection of all women, particularly the vulnerable Gorkha women of Nagaland, from such heinous acts.
