North East Support Centre & Helpline

 

For Immediate Release

A Naga Couple from North East Was Severely Beaten in Delhi

Police Refused FIR and No Action Taken

 

New Delhi, October 12, 2009

 

A Naga couple from North East India was severely beaten by localites in Delhi on late Saturday night. The complaint was denied initially by police officer on duty and registered complaint after 20 hours.

 

According to sources reaching to North East Support Centre & Helpline, the incident happened when Mr and Mrs Shimray who live in Dwarka went to visit their cousin living in Safdarjung Enclave in south Delhi. A group of drunken people abused the couple in car parking and passed racial and lewd remarks.

 

Later when checked the car parked in front of their cousin resident, the tyre was deflated. Shimray and his cousin were beaten up by the localites when they protested. Phone, money and even shirt were snatched away by the culprits.

 

The story does not end here. The police did not respond even the matter was reported to police helpline five times. Finally at around 2 AM police van arrived and refused to arrest the culprits rather abused the couple and Mrs. Shimray.

 

Till Sunday evening even after giving the written complaint to police officer on duty refused to register the complaint. Only after the pressure mounted on police officers on duty from student bodies and human rights activists, the complaint was lodged after 20 hour of the incident.

 

This is not the first time that North East Support Centre & Helpline has experienced the failure of Delhi and NCR police in handling the cased filed by north east communities. The north east communities have been ill-treated by localites and the more by police cops.

 

The failure of Delhi police to insure the safety to north east communities in Delhi and NCR is great concern. Boys, girls who migrated to Delhi for study and carrier are great fear of racial attack abuse. The fear is the more when the police cop fails to perform their duty to protect the north east communities.

 

Unless police machinery in Delhi and NCR ensure the safety of north easterners living in Delhi and NCR and provide the law of the land equally and punish the culprits, the north east communities will continue to suffer, abuse and attack.

 

North East Support Centre & Helpline (www.nehelpline.net) is combined initiative 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.

 

 

Released by

 

 

 

Mr. Madhu Chandra

Spokes Person

9716004939