Manipur horrific video: Centre refers case to CBI, wants trials outside the state

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The Ministry of Home Affairs will refer the Manipur horrific video case to CBI...

The CBI will probe the case of sexual assault on two women who were stripped and paraded by a mob in Manipur, PTI quoted a top government functionary as saying on Thursday, asserting that no effort will be spared to ensure stringent action against the accused in all heinous crimes in the state hit by ethnic violence...

The government will seek the trial of the case, the details of which came out in the open last week through the leak of the video of the horrific incident, in Assam, the official said...

The person who filmed the incident has been arrested and his mobile phone seized, the official said, adding the recovery of the mobile will also establish the sequence of events, including the leakage of the video...

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