Supreme Court will monitor all cases of violence against women committed during three months of sectarian clashes in the northeastern state of Manipur since May . A threejudge bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud said it will appoint a retired senior police official to oversee all complaints of sexual violence to be probed by the federal Central Bureau of Investigations .
Last month videos of two tribal Kuki women being paraded naked by a mob of allegedly majority Meitei men had surfaced attracting international condemnation . The women had said in their police complaints that they were later gangraped . Since then several other cases of women being deliberately targeted in violence that has resulted in more than deaths and rendered tens of thousands homeless .
The court has also created a committee of three retired female judges from different high courts to look into the humanitarian issues . Manipur has a population of around a million. Meiteis who are per cent of the population reside in the more prosperous valley while the Kukis live in the More prosperous valley of the more .
prosperous valley are in the . more prosperous zone . The Meitees live largely in the surrounding hills of the surrounding areas of the . region . The Kukes with a pc population share live largely around the surrounding . hills . Both sides digging bunkers and using sophisticated weapons to target each other .
The clashes broke out in early May the situation has become entrenched with both sides. Both sides have used sophisticated weapons. Both side of the state have been using bunkers to target and to use sophisticated weapons against each other. The situation has been described as ‘targets of the region’s ‘bundered’ and ‘militarised’ to target .
