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India with a horrifying story that's

prompted outrage right across the

country after video emerged of two women

being paraded naked through the streets

in the state of Manipur the Prime

Minister Narendra Modi said the incident

shamed India ethnic clashes have been

going on in Manipur it states in the

northeast of India for months police say

the assault happened on May the 4th

indigenous leaders say the women were

also gang raped well video of the

incident circulated for the first time

on social media yesterday MPS have

disrupted a session in Parliament today

demanding that the issue is debated

India's chief justice said the Supreme

Court was deeply disturbed by the video

warning the government we will take

action if you don't let's hear more

first of all from Narendra Modi

today my heart is full of pain and anger

the incident that has come to light in

Manipur is a shameful incident for any

civilized society

in this country in any corner of this

country in any state government Rising

above politics there is the importance

of Law and Order and respect for women

and I want to assure people that no

culprit will be spared the law with all

its might and strictness will take steps

one by one Whatever has happened with

the daughters of Manipur will never be

forgiven that was India's prime minister

Let's Speak Life to our correspondent

raghvendra Rao who until last week

worked in Manipur uh thank you very much

for being here on the program I mean the

details of this incident the details

seen in the video are utterly horrifying

aren't they

absolutely Matthew and uh you know this

video it surfaced only yesterday but the

incident happened on the 4th of May and

there has been a complete internet

shutdown in Manipur for almost 70 days

now and there are apprehensions that

because of this internet shutdown uh you

know many such bits of information uh

have not been shared so far and there

are apprehensions being made that you

know once internet is restored in the

State uh we could we could see much more

uh than what we have seen so far

take me through the reaction there's

been just in the last 24 hours we were

listening there to Narendra Modi but

plenty of others have been speaking

well absolutely and you know uh Prime

Minister Modi spoke on the issue and

then the Chief Justice of India DIY

chandrachur I mean he really missed no

words in in telling the central

government as well as the Manipur state

government that they they needed to act

this this ethnic violence has been going

on for two and a half months and this

particular video where these these women

have been uh you know sexually assaulted

in a very very brutal manner uh this has

really shaken up things here in India

and uh the chief justices words are are

like almost like a warning to the

government that they better act they

better tell the court what they have

done uh to to to deal with this

particular case and if they don't act

the the Supreme Court chief justice says

they will have to step in now these are

very strong words and they convey the

sense of urgency and you know the sense

of distress which is being felt in a

large section of Society in India

now of course Narendra Modi describes

India as Modern India there has been so

much focus on sexual assault on rape

being used as a weapon why is progress

still so slow

well yes you know in India gender-based

crimes uh they they continue to to you

know to happen uh every every now and

then in fact the the figures are really

horrific uh every year India reports uh

anything between 300 000 to 400 000

crimes against women and out of these uh

total crimes against women almost 28 000

to 35

000 are rapes now these are only the

crimes which are registered a lot many

crimes in India go unreported and that

is the bigger worry uh crimes against

women you know it is it is one problem

which India has been battling with for

decades now in fact particularly in

areas uh rural areas and semi-urban

areas where you know patriarchy is is

really really uh deep-seated and

deep-rooted uh these are the places

where crime against women is is but

particularly on the higher side in the

country but not to say that it doesn't

happen in urban centers Urban cities big

metropolises it happens everywhere and

the government's claims that you know it

has been trying to deal with the problem

they are trying to uh you know get a

grip of the situation but the figures

speak for themselves in fact you if you

just look at the data uh these these

numbers are indeed horrifying