By Express News Service
NEW DELHI: Facing heat for not taking up earlier the Manipur incident where two women were paraded naked, National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma on Friday clarified that she had written thrice to the authorities concerned in the state but received no response.
Letters were allegedly sent on May 19, May 29 and June 19 expressing concern over violence against women. Her last letter was to the state Director General of Police Rajiv Singh on July 20. Clearing the air on the allegations that she had received a complaint about the incident but had not taken any action, Sharma shared her three letters with the media. After the shocking video was uploaded on social media, the NCW took suo motu cognisance of the incident.
“We are in touch with the officers from Manipur…Not one specific but there were many complaints and that too from people outside India and Manipur. Firstly, it had to be clarified whether whatever was written was true. The Manipur government has to clarify and if it is true they have to work on it. So, accordingly, we wrote to them,” she said.
She also said she had flagged the issue of violence against women thrice in the last three months to authorities in Manipur. Sharma added that she had forwarded complaints received by a group in Manipur to the state’s Chief Secretary Vineet Joshi and DGP P Doungel on May 29. In that letter, she stressed the need to respect the dignity and fundamental rights of all women and girls.
NEW DELHI: Facing heat for not taking up earlier the Manipur incident where two women were paraded naked, National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma on Friday clarified that she had written thrice to the authorities concerned in the state but received no response.
Letters were allegedly sent on May 19, May 29 and June 19 expressing concern over violence against women. Her last letter was to the state Director General of Police Rajiv Singh on July 20. Clearing the air on the allegations that she had received a complaint about the incident but had not taken any action, Sharma shared her three letters with the media. After the shocking video was uploaded on social media, the NCW took suo motu cognisance of the incident.
“We are in touch with the officers from Manipur…Not one specific but there were many complaints and that too from people outside India and Manipur. Firstly, it had to be clarified whether whatever was written was true. The Manipur government has to clarify and if it is true they have to work on it. So, accordingly, we wrote to them,” she said.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });
She also said she had flagged the issue of violence against women thrice in the last three months to authorities in Manipur. Sharma added that she had forwarded complaints received by a group in Manipur to the state’s Chief Secretary Vineet Joshi and DGP P Doungel on May 29. In that letter, she stressed the need to respect the dignity and fundamental rights of all women and girls.
