Dimapur, July 2 (MExN): The Naga Students’ Union of Mumbai (NSUM) informed today that the organization had met on June 23 “for the adjudication and settlement of a complaint” of alleged attempt to rape a girl by two Naga boys in Mumbai on June 10.
According to the union, a letter of complaint was received from a Naga girl, name withheld, accusing two Naga boys of attempting to rape and “defile her modesty.” She had requested NSUM to take “stringent action against the two Naga boys,” the note from NSUM president Songam Raikhan and Secretary Thunglamo Odyuo stated.
The union said – “The NSUM therefore, summoned both the parties for adjudication of the complaint. The NSUM also formed an action committee especially for the present case. The elders and senior members were invited. Both the parties present in the meeting with one elder and four elders accompanied the boys and the girl respectively as their representative guardian.
The sitting for the adjudication was attended by the parties and their representative guardian, the action committee members, the NSUM executive members with the advisor, the Naga elders and senior members of NSUM. The meeting heard both the sides “in length and detail” and “pragmatic analysis and discussion” were had among all the attending parties, the NSUM stated.
“Views and opinions from the party as well as the elders and senior members were sought for a peaceful and undisputable settlement without jeopardizing both the parties. After, thorough hearing, discussion, opinion of both the party and their representative guardian, elders and senior members the house finally concluded that according to the their statements both the parties have exceeded in their acts and deeds of decent moral living expected by a prudent and humble person,” the students’ organization said.
Interestingly, the union said the “the House also accepted her second claim of an immediate apology to her and NSUM” and therefore the two boys “were ordered to apologize in the meeting itself.”
The boys “accepted both the claims and fulfilled so,” the NSUM said. “The NSUM, as demanded by the girl and her representative guardian dispatched letter of ‘immoral and criminal acts and deeds’ of the boys to their respective parents and churches.”
Under a resolution passed by the “the house” on the same day, the union said, a warning was issued to refrain from “such indecent and immoral acts failing which the NSUM will be compelled to take stringent actions.”
