Imphal, December 16 2008: MISS LUCY (name chan-ged) had arrived at Gurgaon on 11 December in search of Job.

She was sleeping with her friend Miss Grace (name changed) when at around 2.30 am on 13 December, the landlord knocked at the door of their rented room at Sikandrapur, DLF Phase-1, Gurgaon.

According to a report released by Human Rights Committee and Women Committee of Manipur Students' Association Delhi (MSAD), Lucy suspected the intention and refused to open the door.

The landlord kept on repeatedly banging at the door and abused them for the delay in letting him in.

The women pleaded for mercy and appealed to meet him in the morning.

The landlord was adamant.

His intension to sneak through the room became clearer.

Both Lucy and Grace were filled with fear.

They tried to contact police dialling 100.Since there was no response from the police, Lucy raised an alarm for her Manipuri friends who lived in a nearby building.

Her friends responded to the alarm.

As soon as they reached the scene, an altercation with the culprit ensued.

The landlord along with a gang of local hooligans thrashed Lucy's friends and chased them away.

They then broke the door open and entered into the room.

They abused Lucy and her friend in the most uncivilised languages for having raised an alarm, forced them to pack up their luggage and vacate the room immediately, kicked at them and thrashed them with rod repeatedly.

They were forced apart, took to different directions, beaten up severely, threatened with rape and confined to secluded rooms.

The women of the family got up on hearing hue & cry by the two helpless victims.

They however did not rescue the victims.

Instead, they helped the culprits in confining Lucy to a secluded room.

When the police arrived at the scene, the women in an attempt to conceal facts misinformed the police with the most disgusting lies and allegations against the victims.

Lucy, however, got escaped and rushed towards the police van.

Police took both the victims to the police station and later on, admitted to a hospital.

The victims later discovered their luggage totally dismantled and their money, purse and digital camera were missing.

The two committees of MSAD sharing the pain and trauma of two women from Manipur who were ruthlessly molested; deliberately dragged and confined in several secluded rooms in an attempt to rape; looted of money, purse and digital camera; brutally thrashed and kicked upon by a gang of landlord and hooligans hired by the landlords strongly condemned the barbaric manner of the criminals who do not live upto the moral standard and dignity expected by any civilised society.

MSAD also called upon the Northeast people and progressive parties, organisations and individuals in India to collectively share the pain of the victims of the crime and initiate towards delivering justice to the victims.It also demanded punishment of the criminals with deserving penalty for the crimes mentioned above,besides teaching of an appropriate lesson to the concerned women who shows disrespect to the modesty of their gender.

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