CWC worried with three alleged child rapists on the loose
December 6th, 2007 8:10 pm | News | cedric | 63 Views|
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AIZOL TIMES -
Aizawl Dec 6: Three alleged child rapists who had been released on bail by district magistrates is sending a wave of anxiety through the members of the Child Welfare Committee who are afraid these alleged rapists would lay their hands on children again.
Speaking to this newspaper, chairperson of the CWC Lalengruali today said it was very unfortunate that the authorities had let out these wrongdoers on bail and that the CWC was worried that they would commit the same crimes again during their period of freedom.
“Although we have not taken any official action on the release of these child molesters on bail, we intend to get some information on the condition on how they had been released by the courts on an official level. It is our contention that these people are not fit to be let loose on the society without getting psychiatrist treatment and I don’t believe they were provided this kind of treatment during the short time they spent in jail,” Lalengruali said.
According CWC member Vanramchhuangi, the alleged rapists who had been bailed are Hualhnuna, a primary school teacher of Sihphir Vengthar who had been arrested because he was charged with molesting middle school girl students, Khualdawla, a Home Father of Genesarret Home in Champhai who was acused of having molested nearly all the girls placed under his care and Vanlaldawngkima of Saitual who was accused of raping a child.
According to Lalengruali bails were given to sex offenders mostly on compassionate grounds such health and family problems and that they would be finding out on what grounds these sex offenders had been given bail.
Vanramchhuangi, on her part, said sex offence is treated so seriously that if a judicial officer awards a sentence less than the minimum period of ten years, the officer has to put down in writing the reason why the minimum punishment had not been awarded.
When asked if these accused had been chargesheeted within the stipulated time frame of three months, Vanramchhuangi said all had been chargesheeted and that the judiciary should have been stricter in letting out these accused because despite their not having been convicted, there are ample proofs that they had committed sexual offences to minors.
When contacted, state public prosecutor S.L. Thansanga said he was not very well cognizant of the bail cases of the three accused because he was not present when their bail hearing was held but that the law provides for bails even if accused have been chargesheeted.
Additional Public Prosecutor Ramhluna, who attended the bail hearings of the accused from Sihphir Vengthar and Saitual said Hualhnuna, the Sihphir accused was given an interim bail on account of his daughter getting married and the family needing to withdraw money from his GP Fund account. He said the bail was granted for a limited period of time and after the time expires, he would be put back in judicial custody.
As to Vanlaldawngkima, the accused from Saitual, it was a bit complicated because the prosecution would have to let off the accused because medical records of the examination done on the victim had been misplaced by the prosecution.
“We made a compromise with the defendant’s lawyers to let the accused out on bail while we located the missing document. If we had not done so, the accused would gone scot-free because we would not have a case without the medical report on the victim,” Ramhluna said, adding that the missing document had been found and that charges would be leveled against the accused now.
Champhai could not be contacted today to get any information about Khualdawla and why he had been let out on bail.
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