FROM A REPORTER
SHILLONG, Jan 8: As the Marvelene Trafficking case unfolded with the arrest of Mawhati legislator Julius K Dorphang, the TUR and the CSWO have filed an FIR against the owner and magement of Marvelene Inn, Rilbong, Shillong.
The two NGOs filed the FIR under POCSO Sec 21 (1). The FIR also urged police to register a case under section 370 IPC as amended by the Crimil Law Amendment Act 2013.
While it also pointed out that a minor was twice “received” and “harboured” at Marvelene Inn where she was sexually assaulted and raped.
In connection to the Marvelene Inn trafficking case, the MLA from Mawhati Julius Dorphang, who was wanted in association with a sex-racket case involving a 14-year old girl in Shillong, was on January 7 arrested from his hideout in neighbouring Assam.
The TUR and CSWO have urged all concerned individuals, dorbars, Seng Kynthei, Seng Samla, the child rights and women’s commissions and other organisations to join the mass rally scheduled on January 11 at 11 am from Fire brigade Ground to Additiol Secretariat Parking lot to protest against the recent crimes against women and children.