Freedom fighter’s 80-year-old wife burnt alive in Manipur
In another horrifying case of ongoing ethnic violence reported from Manipur after the parading of two naked women in Kangpokpi district on May 4, the octogenarian widow of a freedom fighter was locked inside her house and it set on fire by an armed group in Manipur’s Kakching district.
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Imphal In another horrifying case of ongoing ethnic violence reported from Manipur after the parading of two naked women in Kangpokpi district on May 4, the octogenarian widow of a freedom fighter was locked inside her house and it set on fire by an armed group in Manipur’s Kakching district.
Belonging to Meitei community, S Ibetombi Maibi, the wife of the freedom fighter S Churachand Singh, who died few years back at 80, was locked inside her house before the armed assailants set on fire her home at Serou village on May 28, according to a FIR filed recently with Serou police station.
Churachand Singh, who was a member of the Indian National Army headed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, was honoured by President A P J Abdul Kalam and awarded Netaji Award by All India Forward Bloc in April 1997.
The tragic incident occurred amidst the ethnic violence in Manipur including in the Serou village, 48 km from the state capital Imphal. Burnt bones of Ibetombi Maibi, half-burnt photographs, medals, mementos of Churachand Singh, many valuables, domestic materials, burnt houses and bullet holes on the walls are now displaying the undreamed of horror.
“Due to her old age and limited mobility, she could not flee. Accordingly, I and the neighbours of three other families ran away,” Ibetombi Maibi's daughter-in-law, S Tampaksana said.
