Manipur Police team to visit Mizoram to enquire rape report

Imphal, Mar 12 (UNI) A team of Manipur police would be sent to Mizoram to probe the alleged rape of 21 girls at Churachandpur district by suspected militants.

The girls were reportedly in Mizoram. Three MLAs from Manipur and some senior State Government officials had gone there to meet them.

Manipur Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh had earlier informed the Assembly that the government will meet all expenses incurred in looking after the people who had fled to Mizoram. He said, however, half of them had already returned to the state.

Police said about ten cases of rape were registered at Parbung Police Station, Churachandpur.

Meanwhile, the United National Liberation Front (UNLF) and Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), whose cadres operate in the area, have announced that they were ready for a probe by an impartial body. The UNLF stated that it would award capital punishment if any of its cadres were found to be involved and reminded that it had killed one of its cadres earlier for raping a girl.

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