{"id":125303,"date":"2020-05-19T02:03:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T20:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=125303"},"modified":"2020-05-19T02:03:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T20:33:21","slug":"women-protest-against-police-inaction-in-arresting-minor-rape-accused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/05\/19\/women-protest-against-police-inaction-in-arresting-minor-rape-accused\/","title":{"rendered":"Women protest against police inaction in arresting minor rape accused"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_125308\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125308\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Women-protest-against-police-inaction-in-arresting-minor-rape-accused.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-125308 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Women-protest-against-police-inaction-in-arresting-minor-rape-accused.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Women-protest-against-police-inaction-in-arresting-minor-rape-accused.jpg 394w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Women-protest-against-police-inaction-in-arresting-minor-rape-accused-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-125308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Seppa 360 News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>SEPPA, May 18:<\/strong> Agitated at the inaction of the police authority in arresting the main culprit in a rape incident at Sunrise Residential School here in East Kameng district, the Women Welfare Organization (WWO) on Monday staged a protest march.<br \/>\nMany women joined the protest march, which started from Government Higher Secondary School at Bebo Colony and culminated at the welcome gate tri-junction.<br \/>\nThe women demanded closing down of the Sunrise Residential School, where the rape incident allegedly took place, besides seeking action against the principal.<br \/>\n&#8220;The objective of our protest is to send strong condemnation against such heinous crimes and to demand justice for the minor survivor by giving exemplary punishment to the culprit&#8221; said WWO president Mone Taba.<br \/>\nThe WWO strongly opposed the customary way of settling rape cases and demanded that such heinous crimes not be settled at the local level, but to take them through a court of law.<br \/>\n&#8220;If we don&#8217;t send a strong message against rape today, such incident may happen again tomorrow,&#8221; said Ebi WWO general secretary Lollen Pizi while addressing the gathering.<br \/>\n&#8220;We want exemplary punishment for the culprit. Rape should not be negotiated through customary laws and local settlement (yallung),&#8221; Ebi added.<br \/>\nReportedly, the alleged accused had surrendered before the police on Sunday evening after considerable pressure mounted by the WWO on police authority.<br \/>\nThe alleged rape of the minor took place in November last year and rocked the town of Seppa after the minor&#8217;s parents lodged an FIR on 17 April, 2020 against the culprit and the school authority for allegedly hushing up the incident.<br \/>\nFour teachers were arrested, including the school principal who later received bail. However, the culprit had been absconding since then.<br \/>\nA case has been registered under the POCSO Act.<br \/>\nSeeking justice for her daughter, the girl&#8217;s mother made shocking revelation on 10 May, 2020 that the relatives of the alleged culprit were using various channels to negotiate with her to settle the case.<br \/>\nThe mother said that the school should be closed down for hushing the heinous crime and pleaded to the police authority to take stringent action against all culprits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter SEPPA, May 18: Agitated at the inaction of the police authority in arresting the main culprit in a rape incident at Sunrise Residential School here in East Kameng district, the Women Welfare Organization (WWO) on Monday staged a protest march. Many women joined the protest march, which started from Government Higher Secondary School [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-125303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}