IMPHAL: A local court on Tuesday remanded a police commando driver for allegedly raping a schoolgirl and his friend, a film actor-cum-singer for assisting in the crime, to judicial custody here.
While the prime accused, police driver Yumnam William, has been suspended by the police department, Film Forum Manipur (FFM) has banned actor Thongam Tarun, who assisted in the crime, from working in Manipuri films.
A resident of Khagempalli Panthak in Imphal West, William (28), had befriended the victim, a Class XII student of TG Higher Secondary School.
On the pretext of taking her to a birthday party, William picked up the girl, who was returning home from school on October 20, in a car. The accused then picked up Tarun (27) from his Thangmeiband Sinam Leikai residence here and the three of them went to a hotel at airport road.
After drugging her with soft drinks, she was allegedly raped in a hotel room by William. Meanwhile, Tarun made sure nobody saw the crime taking place, sources said.
However, following public uproar, they surrendered to the police on the next day.
On Sunday night, a duty magistrate (Imphal West) remanded both the accused to judicial custody for 13 days. They were charged under Sections 366/376/34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Meanwhile the FFM, an apex body of all film-related units in the state, has decided that the forum will not approve any film activities taken up by co-accused Tarun.
"In an FFM meeting convened a few days back, we took the decision against Tarun, who has tarnished the film fraternity of the state. We have also banned his recent music video albums and a film in which he worked," FFM chairman L Surjakanta Shrama told this reporter on Tuesday.
On October 25, home minister Gaikhangam said that punitive action would be taken against the two accused. On the same day, the irate school students protested against the alleged rape of their classmate.
A team of Manipur State Commission for Women, led by its chairperson L Ibetombi Devi, visited the victim's house and consoled the girl and her family and assured that the commission would extend all the support to them.
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