Angami Women against granting bail to rape and murder accused

Dimapur, July 17 (EMN): The Angamimiapfü Mechü Krotho (AMK) – the apex organization of the Angami women – today expressed ‘strong objection’ towards granting of bail to one Sabir Ahmed, prime accused in the gruesome rape and murder of a 51 year old woman on March 26 2018 at Khonoma village.
The AMK, in a press release appended by its President Kevinourheno Seyie and General Secretary Shürhivino Nakhro, stated that the Krotho had submitted a representation to the District and Sessions Judge Kohima towards this end.

For the uninitiated, a 51-year-old mother of seven children residing at Khonoma village in Kohima, Pezano Mor “was brutally raped and murdered by Sabir Ahmed and Munir Uddin on March 26 2018 in Khonoma village.”

The two perpetrators, said to be residents of Karimganj district in Assam”, struck her skull with a heavy club and dumped her dead body into a water tank and fled the village that very night.

The absconding prime accused Sabir Ahmed, after relentless efforts by the ‘efficient’ Nagaland police, was arrested from Aizwal in Mizoram and is presently under judicial custody in Kohima at Women Police Station booked under case No 0007/2018. u/s 302 IPC. The other perpetrator Munir Uddin is still at large.

In this connection, the AMK while saying that the accused Sabir Ahmed is learnt to be an Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrant (IBI), expressed shock and surprise that it has learnt that the accused, who is supposed to be a labourer, “was able to engage some top local Advocates for his bail process”
“This gives a reason to suspect that there may be a hidden society backing the perpetrators in the case.
That if at all bail is granted, there is every possibility that Ahmed may jump bail and remain untraceable forever,” the AMK stated.
Therefore, the Krotho conveyed its ‘sincere and strongest objection’ to the granting of bail to the perpetrator Sabir Ahmed. Calling the crime as “rarest of rare crime”, the AMK demanded for befitting punishment to be awarded to him at the earliest without ‘delay or default’.
“…if any person is found acting as bailer, then we shall hold him responsible for the aforesaid crime,” the AMK warned.
The further appealed the ‘law enforcing agencies to continue the hunt till other accused, Munir Uddin is also brought to book’.