00:00 As the country seats with anger over a video showing two women being paraded naked by a
00:11 mob in Manipur, the house of the main accused, Huirim Hirodas Maithi, was on Thursday burnt
00:17 down.
00:18 Visuals showed a group of people, mostly women, setting the house of the accused ablaze.
00:23 Huirim, who was part of the mob that paraded naked two tribal women in Kangpokpi district
00:28 and was seen dragging one of them, was among four persons arrested.
00:32 The police said that the first arrested person, Huirim Hirodas Singh, was seen prominently
00:37 directing the mob at B. Finam village of Kangpokpi district in the 26-second video that surfaced
00:43 on Wednesday.
00:44 "The Manipur police is conducting raids and making all-out efforts to arrest the other
00:48 culprits at the earliest," the state police tweeted.
00:51 The Supreme Court on Thursday took so-moto cognizance of the viral video, terming it
00:55 "deeply disturbing" and "the grossest violation of constitutional rights."
01:00 It sought explanations from the union and state governments and directed them to ensure
01:04 that such incidents do not recur, threatening to step in if action is not taken.
01:11 As ethnic violence continues in Manipur, operations, jurisdiction of rangers have been modified
01:16 and two more DIG-ranked officers have been shifted from Kohima in Nagaland and Silchar
01:21 in Assam to Manipur.
01:23 Details of a first information report filed on May 18 by Manipur police in a case involving
01:27 women being stripped and paraded, detailed the callous nature of the crime, while the
01:31 inertia of the local police in acting, and the fact that they swooped in and arrested
01:35 four of the perpetrators on Thursday after the videos went viral, highlighting the complete
01:39 collapse of the state's law and order and administrative infrastructure.
01:43 The incident, which happened in a village in Kangpokpi district, took place a day after
01:47 ethnic violence erupted in the northeastern state on May 3.
01:49 However, the horrific footage surfaced over two months later and became viral after the
01:53 internet ban was lifted.
01:55 More than 150 people have been killed and several injured since ethnic violence broke
01:59 out in Manipur on May 3 when a tribal solidarity march was organized in the hill districts
02:03 to protect against the Maiti community's demand for Shidun tribe status.
02:07 Maitis account for about 53% of the state's population and live mostly in the Imphal Valley,
02:12 while tribals, which include Nagas and Ghoukhis, constitute 40% and reside mostly in the hill
02:17 districts.
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