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The rape of minor girls in the otherwise peaceful frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh has sent shock waves across and beyond the state. In one of the three cases the minor girl whose age was just a little above five years was murdered after being sexually assaulted. In another case the perpetrator was the victim’s teacher.
In the first case, the little girl who was studying in upper kindergarten went missing from her home at Namgo Mishmi village in Lohit district on 12th February. As soon as her where about was not known, her parents lodged a complaint at the Police Out Post in Wakro, the administrative circle headquarter and then started a frantic search for the little girl. On 17th February, the dead body of the little girl was found in a tea garden about 300 meters away from her house in a mutilated state.
The next day on 18th February, the Incharge of Wakro Police Out Post Inspector, Thomas Pertin led in the arrest of two accused Sanjay Sobor and Jagdish Lohar. The duos are tea garden labourers from Assam and were later found that they had entered the state without the mandatory Inner Line Permits.
Reportedly after the arrest, both Sobor and Lohar are said to have confessed to their crime. Seeing the little girl alone outside her home, Sobor lured her to a nearby tea garden and sexually assaulted her. He further killed her using a machete when she tried to resist the assault. Though Lohar is directly not involved in the sexual assault of the minor girl but he was found to be abetting the gruesome crime. Moreover, the machete used for the murder belonged to him.
The two accused were put behind bars at the Police Station in Tezu, the district headquarter town on a four day police remand. The next day, an irate mob numbering about a thousand assembled atthe Police Station, demanding the Police to hand over the two culprits to the public. Upon refusal by the police, the mob vandalized the police station and broke the cell before dragging out Sobor and Lohar. The mob then paraded them naked on the streets and later lynched the two using stones, sticks and hammers. The lynching took place at the main town market traffic point.
Indrajit Tingwa
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