In the four days after the horrific Manipur video went viral on June 19, the Manipur police arrested six persons in connection with sexual assault of the women seen in the video.
The police’s rapid action is in stark contrast with its inaction for the two months between May 18, when the women had registered the first information report regarding the offence, and July 19, when the video was first shared on social media.
Even though the National Commission for Women had received a complaint about the incident as early as June 12, it had not sent a reply or even an acknowledgment to the complainants.
It was the public outrage generated by video that finally shook the state machinery into doing its job. On Thursday, the Centre told the Supreme Court that it had transferred the probe in the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Soon afterwards, another video from West Bengal was circulated on social media, of tribal women being assaulted and paraded naked by a mob.
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