Attacks against students from the North-East are refusing to subside. In yet another such incident, a 19-year-old Manipuri student was attacked by a gang of four assailants after he resisted a robbery bid on Sunday night in North-West Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar area. Following the incident, police officials have rounded up around 10 suspects and are questioning them to get leads about the gang that attacked the Manipuri boy.
According to police, the incident took place around 10.30 pm when Chan Pamei was on his way home after meeting his friends in Gandhi Vihar area. Whilst walking from Nirankari School towards Mukherjee Nagar, he was accosted by the four men who asked him to hand over his belongings. When he resisted their attempts to rob him, they attacked him with a blunt object.
“The motive behind the crime was robbery as the snatchers tried to take away his chain and wallet but he managed to escape and asked a motorcyclist passing by for help,” said a police official. The motorcycle rider rushed the victim to Bara Hindu Rao Hospital and called police.Pamei stays in Kotla Mubarakpur area of south Delhi and studies at NIIT.There were widespread protests in Delhi and the North-Eastern States when 19-year-old Arunachal Pradesh student Nido Tania died January 30, a day after being beaten mercilessly by some shopkeepers in lajpat Nagar in South Delhi.
This year, around 10 cases of attacks, rape and robbery have been reported against people from the North-East in the national Capital.