Workshop on PESA Act in Ranchi tomorrow
The Jharkhand government is organizing a workshop in Ranchi on Tuesday with the aim of disseminating awareness about the Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 (PESA Act).
The National Commission for Women on Friday constituted a three-member inquiry team to investigate the alleged gang-rape case of five women in Jharkhand.
According to reports, the commission has written to the state DGP asking him to inform the NCW about the actions taken in the case.
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Five women working with an NGO have alleged that they were raped at gunpoint by a group of at least six men when they had gone to Chochang village in Jharkhand’s Khunti district to create awareness on migration and human trafficking.
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Initial investigation has found that the people behind ‘Pathalgarhi’ (a practice in which villagers inscribe various tenets on huge stone slabs and ban outsiders in their area), are behind the incident in Khunti district on Tuesday, Deputy Inspector General of Police Amol V Homker said.
As per various media reports, the accused also filmed the crime threatened the women against approaching the police.
According to SP Ashwini Kumar Sinha, an 11-member team of an NGO went to the village to perform a street play on migration and human trafficking.
“A group of men arrived on the scene and took them to a nearby forest at gunpoint where the crime was perpetuated,” he said.
The police have identified the culprits and eight people were detained in this connection.
An FIR has been filed and three teams formed to investigate the matter and arrest the culprits, said Sinha.
(With agency inputs)
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