North East Support Centre & Helpline

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For Immediate Press Release

A NE Tribal Girl Raped in IT Hub City Gurgaon

Fact Finding Team Rushed and Lodged Complaint

Rapist Arrested

New Delhi, January 1, 2009 (NE Support Centre & Helpline)

The year 2008 ended with sock with a rape case of a 22 y= ear old Assamese girl in IT hub city Gurgaon, National Capital Region on December 3= 0^th night. The fact finding team rushed to the spot and extended help in filing= the complaint.

The fact finding team led by NE Support Centre & Helpline’s Spokes Person, Mr. Mad= hu Chandra, member Dr. Alana Golmei – social activist along with two lea= ders from Jagori Ms. Nilansu Dutta and Priti rushed to the victim as soon the incident was reported early morning yesterday.

The women members of the fact finding team, met victim a= nd provided the trauma counseling and latter took her to Sector 40 Police Stat= ion Gurgaon, Haryana to lodge the complaint. A rape case FIR No. 325 under the section 376 of Indian Penal Code is registered against the culprits and rap= ist arrested.

The victim revealed the incident to the fact finding tea= m, the Mr. Manish, a resident of = Greenwood, Sector 40, Gurgaon with promise to give a job in= a friend house as domestic help. In stead of taking her to the family where promised for domestic help, Mr. Manish took her to his resident at around 8= PM on December 30. She was offered drink and after refusing, she was offered j= uice that was mixed with some intoxicant and raped her repeatedly throughout the night.

The victim also told, “I was forced to wear reveal= ing tight dressed and he took picture of me.”

At early morning, she was taken to another place and left her in unknown place and latter she managed to return back to her residence= at Sikandrapur, Gurgaon.

After filing the complaint, police took her to Government Hospital at Gurgaon for medical examination.

The north east communities in Delhi and NCR were still u= nder the socked of previous case to two girls molestation in Gurgaon, especially= with the fact that the case was delay by the concerned police official. This incident of the rape case adds the frustration toward the racial and region= al discrimination to the people from North East India.

North East Support Centre & Helpline (www.nehelpline.net) is combined initiati= ve of various human rights activists, social workers, students, journalists and lawyers seeking to prevent harassment and abuses meted out to women, North = East People and tribal communities of different states.

Release by

Mr. Madhu Chandra

Spokes Person