Manipur horror: Attack was spontaneous, no fake video, say authorities

GUWAHATI: The attack on the two women of B Phainom village,who were paraded naked in Manipur on May 4, was spontaneous, authorities said, adding 'no fake video' of villages burnt and women raped had triggered it.
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"The attackers were raiding about nine villages in the area since May 3 night, the day the crisis started in the state. Next day this incident (the women being paraded naked) happened," a senior security source said, adding, "It was a spontaneous act."
The fake video in question was circulated on Twitter on May 5 and on the same day the then Manipur DGP, P Doungel, had clarified that the video purported to be of a woman raped in Churachandpur was fake.

The video showed a picture of a woman's corpse wrapped in plastic; this was circulated as that of a woman who was sexually assaulted and killed in Churachandpur. It was later revealed that the video was of a girl who was allegedly murdered by her parents and her body later discarded in a red trolley bag near the Yamuna Expressway in Mathura in November 2022.