00:00 Namaskar.
00:01 Welcome to another episode of Editorial.
00:04 A lot of you all, a lot of my viewers wrote to me asking me for updates on Manipur.
00:10 In fact, my apologies to my viewers.
00:13 I should have done this long, long back.
00:16 I didn't.
00:17 So I'm going to give you updates on Manipur.
00:19 I'm going to give you updates from where I left, that is in August.
00:22 From August till now, what all has happened, I'm going to give it, I'm going to give those
00:26 updates to you in this editorial.
00:28 That's what I'm going to do today.
00:30 Let's get right into the show.
00:34 Okay, the way I'm going to go about it is, first, from August to September, I'm going
00:42 to take you through some headlines, which gives you an idea of the crimes that happened
00:47 during this last one month.
00:49 Number one, post which what I'm going to do is, I'm going to get into some specifics,
00:56 what the Supreme Court had to say, what were the flaws, what were the lapses, so on and
01:01 so forth.
01:02 After which, we will join the information, we will club this information and form a conclusion
01:08 as to what is happening in Manipur till now and what is that we expect as people of this
01:14 country, citizens of this country, what we expect the government should be doing.
01:19 So this is how we will do our editorial.
01:22 And let's get into the first segment of the editorial.
01:27 Now I will start with where I had left.
01:30 The last report I had done in your channel was, I had spoken to you about Supreme Court
01:36 shifting 27 CBI cases, including crime against women to Assam.
01:41 I had done this report.
01:43 This report was on 25th of August.
01:45 Now let me go to the second report.
01:47 The second report, 1st of September was 6 feared killed as gun battle enters the third
01:54 day.
01:55 This was on the 1st of September.
01:57 Now let me go to the next report on the 4th of September.
02:01 UN experts alarmed by continuing abuse in Manipur.
02:08 Now let me go to the 4th.
02:10 Manipur fresh violence in Palel, death toll rises, more than 50 people injured in gun
02:18 fights.
02:19 This was on the 9th of September.
02:21 Now let's come to the 12th of September.
02:23 12th of September is Manipur violence, 3 people from Kukki Zoo community reportedly killed
02:31 in ambush by armed miscreants.
02:34 This was on the 12th of September.
02:36 Now let's come to the 15th of September, 175, this is a very important report, 175 killed
02:44 and 1100 injured in 4 months of Manipur violence.
02:51 This was on the 15th of September.
02:53 Now let's come to 16th of September, 5 cases of crime against women during Manipur violence
02:58 handed over to CBI.
03:01 Days after police officer killed in Manipur, army soldier was found dead.
03:06 This was on 18th September.
03:08 And now let me come to my last, that is Manipur violence, mob tries to storm police station
03:13 over arrest of 5 youth and curfew imposed.
03:17 This is the report of 21st of September.
03:20 So this is broadly, this broadly gives you what all were happening.
03:25 Not that this covers everything that happened in Manipur, not that it covers everything
03:28 that happened in Manipur, but this is what I gathered in the last one month.
03:33 These were the reports that I gathered in the last month, which I wanted to present
03:36 to you.
03:37 Now let me go into another important aspect.
03:39 Like I told you, one of the most important reports in this, what I just spoke to you
03:43 about is that 175 people till date has died in Manipur.
03:47 175 people have been killed in Manipur.
03:50 Let me rephrase it.
03:51 And 1100 people are injured.
03:55 This is the status and the count continues.
03:59 This is the unfortunate part.
04:01 Now let me tell you the second part.
04:06 You see, let us talk about some of the lapses that has happened.
04:09 Now I am not saying this, the Supreme Court is saying this.
04:12 The Supreme Court said, slammed the state machinery in Manipur over the lapses and delay
04:18 in filing FIR and investigating cases of violence that have been reported since May 3rd.
04:25 Look at the Manipur government status report submitted in the court shows glaring errors
04:30 in the FIRs that were filed and the lapses in investigation.
04:34 The government submitted that 6523 FIRs were filed in Manipur from May 3rd when the violence
04:41 erupted to July 3rd.
04:43 For this, 11 of them are related to sexual violence against women.
04:47 Now this is what the story is.
04:50 The court says, boss, there are huge lapses in your FIR.
04:53 Now let me tell you what are the lapses that the court found in the FIR.
04:57 The lapses that the court found in the FIR is one is serious offenses missing from the
05:01 FIRs.
05:02 You know, omit serious crimes that the person has committed.
05:06 So the FIR becomes weak.
05:09 So that's the way to help a culprit.
05:11 Secondly, they spoke about wrong sections on the FIR.
05:15 Wrong sections on the FIR again, you make the sections weaker and saving the culprits.
05:23 I will go more.
05:25 Lack of action against police identified people.
05:28 People there were absolute lack of action against police who have not performed their
05:33 duties the way they should have.
05:35 People who have been involved in violence.
05:37 These were some of the lapses that the court found.
05:40 And these were some of the lapses that the court spoke about.
05:42 Now hearing in the court, Central Government assured the Supreme Court that the Levin case
05:48 identified as cases of violence against women and children would be transferred to CBI for
05:53 investigation as far as recommendation of the state government is concerned.
05:56 However, Petitioner pointed out before the court that both the Kuki and the Methi community
06:02 have given examples of cases of assault against women and children which have not been flagged
06:07 in the status report.
06:08 While the government says, okay, we will hand over everything to Assam, hand over everything
06:12 to CBI, all that is happening, but case you will not flag off, you are not showing the
06:17 cases where there have been assault against Kuki women, Methi women, Methi children, Kuki
06:23 children, you have not even flagged it off.
06:26 So what are you talking about?
06:29 So I mean, everything, everything that can go wrong, everything that can go wrong has
06:36 gone wrong.
06:37 Now let us understand what are we talking here.
06:40 You see, we are talking about clear administrative flaws.
06:47 We are talking about clear lack of will to act against the culprit.
06:54 We are talking about absolute take it easy attitude towards culprits, towards rioters.
07:02 Who are promoting these rioters?
07:04 Who are promoting these people who are creating violence?
07:06 And why are they promoting it?
07:09 Why are actions not taken?
07:11 The most important point is, this happened in May, June, July, August, September, fifth
07:20 month.
07:22 The violence just does not seem to be stopping.
07:25 I spoke to you about almost the whole of September.
07:29 Almost every second day there are violence and these are reported violence.
07:32 God knows how many violences are not reported.
07:34 I will come to the reporting part.
07:37 So every day there seems to be violence.
07:39 You know, but what has not changed?
07:41 The Chief Minister has not changed.
07:43 The person who is heading the administration, who clearly seems to have failed in delivering
07:49 his duties, is still sitting there.
07:52 That's the first question I want to ask.
07:54 The second question I want to ask is to Supreme Court.
07:57 You see, the Supreme Court, the Honorable Supreme Court seems to be giving a lot of
08:04 sound bites, making a lot of statements.
08:07 But when it comes to actual delivery, I don't think much is happening from the Supreme Court
08:12 end.
08:13 Because this was the same Supreme Court who said that if you don't act, we will act.
08:19 What is the Supreme Court waiting for?
08:22 Every day, every day of the month, there is some violence or another.
08:29 Every day of the month, act.
08:34 The government is not acting.
08:35 Clearly the government is not acting.
08:36 The government is not willing to change the Chief Minister.
08:39 Clearly the government is not acting.
08:40 Neither is the central government, the Home Ministry doing anything or the Chief Minister
08:46 doing anything.
08:47 Nothing has changed.
08:49 Everybody is as is.
08:52 So what more is the Supreme Court waiting for?
08:57 How many more lives should be lost before the Supreme Court acts?
09:02 What more does the Supreme Court need?
09:05 Now, this is the point I wanted to make.
09:08 The last point before I end is, you see, it is so sad, isn't it?
09:13 It is so sad.
09:14 The police doesn't have time to file FIRs, sections are weak, the crimes are not mentioned,
09:24 so on and so forth.
09:25 Some FIRs are not mentioned, some FIRs are not even heard of, some crimes just happened,
09:30 nobody takes cognizance to that.
09:31 This is all what is said.
09:33 But the fact is, they have enough time, effort to file a FIR against Editors Guild on Manipur
09:43 report.
09:44 They have time and energy to file a FIR against Editors Guild.
09:48 This surprises me.
09:51 Why is this government always on punishing the messenger instead of punishing the perpetrator?
10:00 Why is this government doing it?
10:02 These are questions that I wanted to ask and this is the update, the way I see it.
10:07 Like I said, most of these I have gathered from various newspapers, various reports that
10:14 I could, I and my team could research on and this is what I wanted to tell you.
10:21 But what I see is very disturbing.
10:24 What I see is very depressing.
10:28 I hope, I pray that somebody either in the Supreme Court or in the government takes some
10:36 cognizance to this and put an end to this violence.
10:40 Our people are dying.
10:42 Our people are suffering.
10:45 1100 people injured, 175 died, killed.
10:53 What more will it take us to act?
10:56 Till I see you next time, that's tomorrow at 10 pm.
11:00 Namaskar.
11:01 Sorry, it is not tomorrow at 10 pm.
11:03 I am sorry.
11:04 We are taking a break.
11:05 We are taking a days off tomorrow.
11:07 HW News Network will be shut for a day.
11:09 We will not be broadcasting news tomorrow on the occasion of Anand Chaturthi.
11:14 We are taking a break, all of us.
11:17 So we will not be on air tomorrow.
11:20 So we will catch you day after tomorrow at 10 pm.
11:26 Take care and have a great Anand Chaturthi.
11:29 Namaskar.
11:33 Namaskar.
11:37 Namaskar.
11:40 Namaskar.
11:43 (music fades)
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