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Memorandums submitted to Chief Minister Smt. Sheila Dikshit, Girja Vyas

Chairperson of National Commission for Women and Dr. H T Sangliana Deputy

Chairman of National Commission for Minorities.

Memorandum

November 26, 2010

We are writing to you with deep distress about the plight of tribal women, especiallythose from the North Eastern States who are living and working in National Capital

Region and Delhi. Thousands of educated girls from Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram,Nagaland, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh who had come to work in Call Centers and IT

sectors in these cities are facing racial discrimination and sexual assault. They live insmall groups, and are often alone, which becomes a soft target for harassment in their

residence and workplace. The North East Support Centre & Helpline was founded inNew Delhi four years ago by concerned groups to assist such girls who are in distress and

in danger of physical and psychological harm.

We seek your urgent attention on the recent shocking incident of a Gurgaon based BPO

employee Ms. P. C. Hmingchhuang 30 years old from Mizoram state. She was kidnappedand gang raped in a moving vehicle at Motibagh ring road on midnight of November 23,2010. The incident has shocked the nation and panic has spread among working women,

particularly young girls from North East India who used to return back home late nightfrom work. This is not the first incident nor will be last when such incidents are

continuously ignored and left without proper investigation.

Considering this recent incident and same incident happened in the same locality in 2005,

and the unprecedented racial/gender-based violence meted to the people of North East

India living in Delhi, North East Support Centre & Helpline sees the need that seriousand concrete steps should be taken up by the law enforcing agencies. Therefore, NorthEast Support Centre & Helpline demands the following from your good office:

1. Special Helpline for North East communities should be set up immediately, headed

by not lower than a range of Deputy Commissioner Police, preferably from NorthEast region.

2. There should be special Night Police Patrolling in all the prone areas of racial/sexual-based violence. The areas identified by North East Support Centre & Helpline are

Murnika, Mahipalpur, Nanakpura, Motibagh, Mohamadpur, Khanpur, Sarojini Nagar,New Friends colony, Defense Colony in South Delhi, North Delhi Campus, Nehru

Vihar, Gandhi Vihar in North Delhi and Sikhanderpur in Gurgaon. Setting up ofspecial night police patrolling in these areas will not only prevent racial/gender-based

violence face by people from North East India, but will also ensure safety to all theworking women who are returning late at night from workplace.

3. CCTV cameras must be installed in the above mentioned prone areas to nab theculprits.

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4. A white paper on actions taken by Delhi police on crimes committed against people

from North East India in Delhi and NCR which were registered in various policestations should be produced.

5. The BPO Company at Gurgaon where Ms P. C. Hmingchhuang was working must bebooked for failing to provide safety measurement to night working woman.

6. Hostel for North East working women in Delhi and NCR7. Ms P. C. Hmingchhuang belongs to a tribal community of Mizoram and therefore,

the culprits should be booked under suitable sections of IPC and SC/ST AtrocityPrevention Act 1995.

North East Support Centre & Helpline (www.nehelpline.net) is a joint initiative ofvarious human rights activists, social workers, students, journalists and lawyers seeking

to prevent harassment and abuses meted out to North East People and tribal communitiesof other states.

Sincerely,

Dr John Dayal

Member National Integration Council,

Government of IndiaFounding Patron NE Helpline

Rev. Ambika Hongsha

Secretary NE Helpline

Madhu Chandra

Spokes Person NE Helpline

Dr. Alana Golmei

Founding Member NE Helpine

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