IMPHAL, 18 April: Coming out strongly against the increasing crimes against women, Women Action Development, WAD, general secretary M Sobita in a press meet today at CSD office said that repeated application of her organisation to meet the State Governor was declined and charged that the current Governor is fluent only in delivering speeches at State occasions.
Demanding for a full fledged Governor for the state she said in the current year, 22 women are already registered as missing cases and the concerned authority is not keeping the problem as a priority. `Will those women missing be found as skeletons?`™ asked Sobita and seek cooperation from the public as a whole in fighting increasing crimes against women.
The press meet on Deterioration of Law and Order in Manipur was held at Central for Social Development, CSD office, Palace Compound jointly organised by Survivor Forum, Conflict Widow Forum, UNMM, NLF, WAD, NEDF, PPW, IRDC, WSRC, KCLWDA, AWBA and HJF.
The WAD general secretary further stated that cases of crime against women including the murder of a differently abled minor girl Shumila at Borayangbi, and that of the recent case of Naobi are still not resolved.
She lambasted the police for its failure in cracking these cases, and questioned their competent. He also doubted their integrity as uncorrupted police officers, and said they should be replaced with other more competent and honest officers.
Lamenting the current fashion of mob justice she said that it is also a fallout of the negligence by police officers.