Imphal, March 05: There has been no let up in the public outcry and condemnation against the misconduct of the police Commandos who allegedly tortured and molested Maibam Naobi Chanu for nine days in their custody before she was finally released by the Court as an innocent person.

In a strongly worded-statement, Poirei Leimarol Meira Paibi Apunba, Manipur (PLMPAM) dubbed the police commandos as beasts who have no respect for their own mothers and sisters.

Reacting to the threat and intimidation given to its general secretary Th Apabi for having extended help to Naobi, the women's body dared the police commandos to come at an appointed place and timing for confrontation.

The women's body also came down strongly on Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh and his Council of Minister for allegedly taking the matter very lightly and said suspension of 4/5 personnel for their beastly act is not the answer to the demand of the people.

All the guilty personnel and the CJM of Thoubal who encourage the culprits should be terminated from service immediately and lodged them in the jail for life, PLMPAM demanded.

In another vitriolic statement, All Manipur Nupi Marup, Bishnupur District wondered how could characterless police commandos be given arms and deployed as security forces.

'They are more dangerous than HIV infected persons and should be condemned for life in the jail', said a Marup statement.

Joining the condemnation chorus, All Manipur Private School Teachers' Association (AMPSTA) said ill-treatment meted out to Naobi who works as a teacher in the Public School at Yairipok Changamdabi is an insult to all the teaching community.

There is no bravado in the action of the police commandos who flexed their muscles on a hapless girl, the Association said in a statement.

Staff and students of the Public School, Changamdabi, Yairipok have also strongly condemned the action of the police commandos on Naobi and said it is a crime against all the teachers in the world.

They further demanded that the identities of the police commandos involved in the incident should be revealed to the public.

Manipur University Teachers' Association decried the action of the police commandos as barbaric not tolerable in any civilised society and appealed to the Government for exemplary punishment to the guilty personnel so that such incident never recur in Manipur.

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