Opposition Congress demonstrates before CM residence

Opposition Congress today demonstrated in front of the official residence of Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar to protest against increase in crime against women and alleged collapse of law and order in the state.
A procession led by the president of Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC), Diba Chandra Hrankhawl and leader of the opposition Sudip Roy Burman broke two barricades put up by state police and paramilitary Tripura State Rifles (TSR) and reached near the Chief Minister's residence and demonstrated there, police sources said.
Executive president of TPCC and MLA Asish Saha alleged that in last one week at least five women including two minor girls were raped in the state, but Sarkar, who is also the Home minister of the state, did not take any effective measure to curb the menace.

"We beat drums and blew trumpets to symbolically show that the 'Kumbhakarna' was sleeping and we wanted to awake him. When our mothers and sisters are being raped, chief minister is turning a blind eye and deaf ear," Saha told reporters.
A minor girl who went missing from her home at Raima village in Tripura's Dhalai district on February eight was found raped and killed the next day.
In another incident, a youth was arrested yesterday and another was absconding after the rape of another minor girl in Rani Panchayat area under Kakrabon police station of Gomati district, the sources said.

The arrest was made after a complaint was made on February eight for the rape on January 26.
A house wife was raped and brutally injured on February two at Murapara in Gomati district. She is now struggling with her life at Agartala Government Medical College here, police said.
However, Ganatantrik Nari Samity, the women wing of ruling CPI-M has demanded exemplary punishment of the culprits.